The Illustrated Woman
By Nancy Kiefer
The Illustrated Woman is a play that needs 6 or more performers (4 women, 2 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 6 or more performers
- Roles
- 4 women, 2 men
- Cast notes
- 2m., 4w.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- drama
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
This powerful adult drama deals with the issues of sexual abuse and dissociative identity disorder. Jane Ellen Whitman is a 19-year-old woman living with her parents, Frank and Darla, in a small town in the 1930s. Her behavior fluctuates from shy, intellectual to passive and bizarre, flippant and vindictive. Frank and Darla attribute their daughter's peculiarities to insanity and even demonic possession. When Anita Lloyd comes to visit, she entertains Jane Ellen and Darla with tales about her li
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