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Saint Frances of Hollywood : a play in two acts / by Sally Clark.
LIBRA PR9199.3.C5235 S25 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Sally, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Burnaby, B.C. : Talonbooks, 1996.
- Summary:
- Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star, pursued by the Government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as "cured" in 1949. Sally Clark's play has taken the biographical details of Frances Farmer's life and transformed them into a mesmerizing and quintessential classical tragedy.
- Also included are eight of dazzling colour set designs by Adam Swica.
- "It is this mix of fact and fantasy that Clark has captured so brilliantly and used to striking advantage...the effect is brutally chilling". -- Variety
- ISBN:
- 0889223661 :
- OCLC:
- 35969572
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