5/8/2023 0 Comments Miss Lulu Bett by Zona GaleThis three-act stage adaptation of her best- selling novel brought Gale the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (sandwiched between O'Neill's awards for "Beyond the Horizon" and "Anna Christie").ĭwight Deacon's small-town middle-class home is his castle, a doll's house in which he keeps his two cheeky daughters and his pampered house pet of a wife in a permanent state of infantilism. While digging around in America's theatrical attic for plays about women's concerns, Horizons Theater came upon this obscure little gem, blew the dust off and found it unclouded by the years.Īt once sentimental and sharply satirical, Zona Gale's drawing-room comedy about the uncertain emancipation of lonely Miss Lulu makes for a very funny evening, without scanting the play's proto-feminist underpinning. WHERE HAS "Miss Lulu Bett" been all our lives?
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