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O'Neill Theater Center Playwrights Conference

1978

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Yale Repertory Theatre

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise
(below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

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Play/Drama

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Having married an American serviceman during his wartime stint in England, Iris has looked forward to coming to the United States—to the glittering, glamorous world she has seen depicted in Hollywood movies. But her new husband's home turns out to be Willard Patch, Pennsylvania, a grimy, depressed coal mining town where life is drab and hardscrabble. And her new family isn't much better: Her husband, Joe, is content to live on welfare; her father-in-law is a bigoted tyrant who speaks broken English; her slightly retarded sister-in-law, Katrine, is resentful at having to give up her bedroom; and it is only with her stolid, long-suffering mother-in-law, Marie, that Iris senses the possibility of rapport. Centering on the relationship which grows between these two, and which eventually includes Katrine as well, the action of the play moves inexorably and powerfully through a series of crises—some hilarious, some deeply stirring—which bring Iris both the understanding she needs to comprehend her fate, and also the strength to break away and seek a better life for herself and her infant daughter.

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1981

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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