Abingdon Square

Name: Abingdon Square
Author: Maria Irene Fornés

by Maria Irene Fornés

Play charting 35 years of women's lives through scenes in Greenwich Village townhouse

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Maria Irene Fornés

Cuban-American playwright whose work was central to the Off-Off-Broadway movement and influenced a generation of Latino and feminist dramatists. Fefu and Her Friends is her masterpiece, a formally innovative work that asked audiences to move through different performance spaces. She received nine Obie Awards.

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