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About MARIAL A
look at society and the stage Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Wendell Brock
In a four-day series of performances, discussions
and lectures starting Sunday, Theater Emory and the Emory Center
for Myth and Ritual in American Life will consider the way 20th-century
drama has fostered myths about family life in this country. On Monday, the theater will read scenes from an American
play representing each decade of the past hundred years. Starting
with Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" --- which runs
at Theater Emory through March 2 --- the evening-long exercise will
include excerpts from Sidney Howard's "The Silver Cord,"
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," Tennessee
Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," Arthur Miller's "Death
of a Salesman," Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class,"
August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," A.R. Gurney's
"The Dining Room" and Paula Vogel's "How I Learned
to Drive." Here's the program of "Staging the American Family:
A Symposium on the Evolution of the Idea of Family in 20th Century
Drama": > Rutgers University professor John Gillis gives
the keynote lecture, "Our Imagined Families: The Myths and
Rituals We Live By." 7:30 p.m. Sunday. > The way we were, or was it? The theater presents
"The American Family on Stage: A Decade-by-Decade Look at the
Evolution of the Family." 7:30 p.m. Monday. > Michael Goldman, a National Book Award nominee
and two-time winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic
Criticism, will analyze the role of family in American theater.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday. > Panel including Tony Award-winning playwright
David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly"), Gillis and Goldman
will discuss family mythmaking in various public arenas such as
pop culture, TV and advertising. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. All events are free. Mary Gray Munroe Theater in Dobbs
University Center, 605 Asbury Circle. 404-727-3440,
www.emory.edu/college/MARIAL/index.html.
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