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An American Daughter
Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A g...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
August 19th 1999
by Mariner Books
(first published 1998)
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I really like this play, I wonder if it’s possible for our small backwater community theater group to do right by it. The play is about a doctor and heath care executive, who passionately wants national health care and women's reproductive freedom, is a wife and mother to young sons, the daughter of an Indiana senator, and the five times great- granddaughter of Ulysses Grant, is nominated to be Surgeon General and her nomination is scuttled because she ignored a jury summons. It has some funny l...more
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I used to love Wendy Wasserstein, but now her writing just makes me feel consistently sad and trapped as a woman - I think she tries to create happy endings within the world of tensions and unhappiness that she describes, but her emphasis on the continuing constraints and shifting traps that waylay women over time may be realistic, but it makes me feel hopeless!
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The last Wasserstein play I saw live, circa 2003?, about a surgeon general nominee . I wanted to like it more than I did but I must admit I was distracted by the Tuckerization of her real-life friend, correspondent Forrest Sawyer, into the character Timber Tucker.
ARGH! So, did he sleep with her? I need a class discussion. What an intersting "little" play about politics, family and misplaced...social angst. I liked this one and will enjoy reading student commentary on it.
A political blockbuster? Well, a dramatic dtory based on a high-falutin' politico that reminds one of the big Nanny Illegal scandal a ways back. Little bombs go off with deft precision. Fun!
I remember seeing it on Broadway and could hear Lynne Thigpen in my head saying the lines. It seems very much relevant as we go through a Supreme Court confirmation process.
Better than I thought it would be and not as preachy as I thought it would be-
A little on the predictable side, but maybe that's just because I have had women in politics and the media's treatment of them on my mind for many months now. I think she hits the dilemma right on the nose.
Gosh. What a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE play. It is just painfully boring, extremely feminist, and just...bleh. NOT my cup of tea. One of the most terrible things I had to read in college, by far.
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Awfully corny as an audio book, but I did find the characters engaging, and it made a rainy night on the Pennsylvania Turnpike a little more bearable.
The greatest playwrite I ever read takes on politics and the media with guts and vison.
a female Drury
a female Drury
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Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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