"The Girl with Three Arms"

Bollow, Ludmilla (American playwright, writer, actress, 19__-____), “The Girl with Three Arms,”

a 25-minute dramatic monolog in English, set as an interview, winter, the present, 1f; • © 1998 by Ludmilla Bollow; • in Ludmilla Bollow’s The Girl with Three Arms (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: The Author, 1998); • script/rights available from Ludmilla Bollow, 314 West Sugar Lane, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217, U.S.A., telephone (home) 414-352-8370, fax 414-352-8370, e-mail bollow@earthlink.net, http://home.earthlink.net/~bollow/. • Cited by Ludmilla Bollow via ftp June 1, 2004.

§ Dramatis Personae Main Character (f), Older.

§ Synopsis “A woman describes to an interviewer the physical and psychological effects of having been born with three arms and her life thereafter.

§ Comment “Strange revelations of a bizarre life as woman reveals to art magazine editor about being born with three arms and how it affected her. • Simple presentation. Varied acting values.”

§ Themes arm, artist, burial, childhood, disfigurement. See also Ludmilla Bollow's

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