Martin Sherman

<p> Playwright and screenwriter Martin Sherman dramatizes outsiders--gay female foreign disabled different in religion class or color--skipping over quicksand as they strive to survive. This book analyzes and evaluates Sherman's work while correcting previously published errors and establishing the flavor of the critical debate. Devoting more attention to such internationally acclaimed works as <I>Bent</I> and <I>Mrs. Henderson Presents</I> it also considers less well known and even unpublished and unproduced scripts as well as his working relationships with the luminaries of stage and screen who have appeared in directed and produced his plays and screenplays.</p>