Plays by Megan Terry

<p>This collection includes three full-length plays: APPROACHING SIMONE BABES IN THE BIGHOUSE and VIET ROCK. APPROACHING SIMONE: Simone Weil a French girl of Jewish extraction whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self-imposed starvation is the subject of this striking theatrical exploration into the nature of faith and spirituality. BABES IN THE BIGHOUSE: A documentary fantasy musical that explores feminism sexuality and the degradation of women. VIET ROCK: Through the use of dialogue music chant dance pantomime and image the play satirizes attitudes toward the Vietnam war.</p><p><br></p><p>  The work of no other contemporary American playwright can boast the extraordinary scope of that of Megan Terry. In the course of over thirty years her collected plays have become a virtual compendium of the styles of modern drama ranging from collaborative ensemble work to performance art to naturalism...Beginning with her earliest work she has devised a politically and socially activist theater using a diversity of nonrealistic forms to challenge a culture which has systematically disparaged nonlinear drama. Megan Terry remains a key figure in the development of the American alternative theater.</p><p>David Savran In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>