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Machinal (Royal National Theatre) Book

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 WrightSophie Treadwell's play Machinal was first seen on Broadway in 1928, in London in 1930, and was later revived in the 1990s.This edition of Machinal includes an introduction by Judith E. Barlow.Read More

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    Machinal : Paperback : NICK HERN BOOKS : 9781854592118 : 1854592114 : 23 Sep 2011 : 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.

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

  • 1854592114
  • 9781854592118
  • Sophie Treadwell
  • 2 December 1993
  • Nick Hern Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
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