Strange attractors
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Strange attractors
- Creators
- David Adjmi
- Contributors
- Art Borreca (Advisor)Lisa Schlesinger (Committee Member)Megan Gogerty (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Theatre Arts (Playwriting)
- Date degree season
- Spring 2025
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.007926
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- v, 132 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2025 David Adjmi
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 04/23/2025
- Public Abstract (ETD)
Betsy Wortman is an Upper Middle Class housewife and mother of two residing in a chic Manhattan townhouse at the very tail end of the 20th Century. On appearance, she lives a perfect life; a doyenne of fashion and board member on multiple charities, she is both fashionable and an avatar of moral goodness. But upon reconnecting with an old friend encountering hard times, she finds herself in enmeshed in an increasingly ugly series of events that threaten to undo her marriage, her sanity, and her very existence. Written in a frenetic, jagged style that mashes up television ads, self-help books and valley girl slang with 19th Century melodrama, this brazen adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll House is a wildly satiric and emotionally raw look at the pain and loathing buried inside the American Dream.
- Academic Unit
- Theatre Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984831023002771