from Part I - Places and People
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2025
Elaine Romero – an accomplished playwright, teacher, and yogi who studied all three practices with María Irene Fornés – uses the tools of dramatic writing to develop a historically informed theatrical exploration of Fornés’s time in Paris in 1954 with her then romantic partner, Harriet Sohmers (an artist, model, and writer who later published memoirs of this period using the surname Zwerling). Here, Romero’s short play – set in the summer of 1954 that the two women spent together in Paris – ruminates on how Fornés’s artistic beginnings stirred during this intimate time with Sohmers. The playscript is prefaced by a brief critical reflection by Romero that details how her own experiences with Fornés inflect her playwriting process and the playwriting exercise Romero offers as conclusion to her play.
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