Maria Irene Fornes was one of America's greatest playwrights and most influential teachers, but many know her only as the ex-lover of writer and social critic Susan Sontag. The visionary Cuban-American dramatist constructed astonishing worlds onstage, writing over 40 plays and winning nine Obie Awards. At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is often referred to as American theater's "Mother Avant-Garde." When she gradually stops writing due to dementia, an unexpected friendship with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignites her spontaneous creative spirit and triggers a decade-long collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.

The duo travels from New York to Havana, Miami to Seattle, exploring the playwright's remembered past and their shared present. Theater luminaries such as Edward Albee, Ellen Stewart, Lanford Wilson, and others weigh in on Fornes's important contributions. What began as an accidental collaboration becomes a story of love, creativity, and connection that persists even in the face of forgetting.

Women Make Movies

Friendship, American Movies, Voyages and travels., Lesbian dramatists, Women dramatists, Cuban American authors--Biography, Fornes, Maria Irene

Memran, Michelle (Producer), Pearl, Katie (Producer), Siegel, Shelby (Producer), Winters, Heather. (Producer), Women make movies (distributor)

01:19:07 (HH:MM:SS)

English

adult/continuing education, higher education, high school (grades 10-12), college

Name	Women Make Movies
Role	distributor
Telephone	212-925-0606
Address	462 Broadway, STE 500, New York, NY 10013
Email	[email protected]

2018-01-01

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