The Ladies of the Corridor - Parker, Dorothy; D'Usseau, Arnaud
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Drama Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau Characters: 7 male 9 female 1 dog 5 Interior Sets Although THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR is not strictly a thesis play its authors do have a point to make. It is that when widowhood comes to American middle-aged women only those prepared for a career have any chance for happiness. They are mostly bitter frustrated bored and driven to suicide kleptomania or constant attendance at the movies. In particular the dramatists are

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Drama Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau Characters: 7 male 9 female 1 dog 5 Interior Sets Although THE LADIES OF THE CORRIDOR is not strictly a thesis play its authors do have a point to make. It is that when widowhood comes to American middle-aged women only those prepared for a career have any chance for happiness. They are mostly bitter frustrated bored and driven to suicide kleptomania or constant attendance at the movies. In particular the dramatists are
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Autorenporträt
Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in 1893 and grew up in New York, attending a Catholic convent school and Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine, writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. She then became drama critic of Vanity Fair and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table. Famous for her spoken wit, she showed the same trenchant commentary in her book reviews for The New Yorker and Esquire and in her poems and sketches. Her collection of poems included Not So Deep as a Well and Enough Rope, which became a bestseller; and her collections of stories included Here Lies. She also collaborated with Elmer Rice on a play, Close Harmony and with Arnaud d'Usseau on the play the Ladies of the Corridor. She herself had two Broadway plays written about her and was portrayed as a character in a third. Her cynicism and the concentration of her judgements were famous and she has been closely associated with modern urbane humour. Her first husband was Edwin Pond Parker II, and although they were divorced some years later, she continued to use his name, which she much preferred to her own of Rothschild. Her second husband was an actor-writer Alan Campbell. They went to Hollywood as a writing team and went through a tempestuous marriage until his death in 1963, when Dorothy Parker returned to New York. She died in 1967. Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.
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As unyielding and coruscating a portrait of women before feminism that I have ever seen.
Honor Moore in The New York Times , on the 2005 off Broadway revival