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CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
(1860 - 1935)Nationality: USA
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates
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Yellow Wallpaper, TheYellow Wallpaper, The
Synopsis:
an indictment of the patriarchial prescription for 'bed-rest' forced on a woman with post-partum depression. Despite her yearning for moderate activity and creative writing, the medical establishment as embodied in her physician husband quarantines her to a room in the country where the abhorrent wallpaper consumes her. With each diary entry, we witness her initial revulsion by and eventual compulsion toward the graphic nightmare that is the wall covering in her isolated room
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Notes:
part of memoirs of madness
1st Produced:
Players Theatre, NY 2008
Organisations:
My Fair Heathen Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Horror
Parts:
Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
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