FIRST 100 YEARS:
The Professional
Female Playwright

FIRST 100 YEARS WINDOW INSTALLATION
up through December 31
at the Drama Book Shop,
250 W. 40th St. (between 7th & 8th Aves.)
New York City
212- 944-0595 x417

Featuring the work of scenic designer David Barber and costume designer Loren Bevans.

Bevans' concept for the window takes up where Branwen MacDonald's First 100 Years print campaign leaves off. Whereas the print images undermine assumptions and exhort viewers to learn more about women playwrights of the 17th & 18th Century, Bevans sought to make a strong link between these artists as women and their words, texts and thoughts by creating a mid-Eighteenth Century paper dress constructed from copies of original manuscripts by playwrights Elizabeth Inchbald and Susanna Centlivre, manuscripts images provided courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.

"Loren developed the idea of a woman representing all of the playwrights actually fabricated out of their manuscripts. Once she and I sat down and discussed the idea, I knew that we should place her in a bold, spare "container" that would showcase all of the detail work and complexity of the white figure. My notion is that the figure's strong contrast with the bright pink surround and modern-print play titles mirrors our re-discovery of these great landmark artists of the 17th and 18th century today, in the 21st century." David M. Barber

The Drama Book Shop will be in special partnership with The First 100 Years devoting a special section of books (plays, biographies, design books, criticism, etc.) to Women Playwrights of the 17th & 18th Century English stage.

SO... don't stop with just the window; go inside and find out what else you don't know!