In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (18931968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, "Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta" constitutes a significant find for the canon of gay and lesbian drama.In her 1960 autobiography "Here Lies the Heart, " de Acosta notes that as she was contemplating marriage to a man in 1920, she was "in a...
In this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (18931968), theater historian R...
