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Machinal

Sophie Treadwell
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781854592118
  • Weight: 111g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Dec 1993
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.

'This is a play written in anger. In the dead wasteland of male society – it seems to ask – isn't it necessary for certain women, at least, to resort to murder?' - Nicholas Wright

Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal was first seen on Broadway in 1928, and in London in 1930. It has been revived many times since, including by the National Theatre, London, in 1993 in a production starring Fiona Shaw and directed by Stephen Daldry.

This edition of Machinal includes an introduction by Judith E. Barlow.
About Sophie Treadwell
Sophie Treadwell was born in California in 1885. She went to High School in San Francisco and then to the University of California, from which she graduated in 1906 and became a reporter on the San Francisco Bulletin. The highlights of her career as a journalist included an investigative series on homeless women, an exclusive interview with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, and a spell in Europe as one of the first women foreign correspondents covering the 1914-18 War. She wrote four novels and more than thirty plays, including O Nightingale (1922), Gringo (1922), Machinal (1928), Ladies Leave (1929), Lusita (1931), Plumes in the Dust (1936), For Saxophone (1939-41) and Hope for a Harvest (1941). She died in 1970.

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