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Perlman, Sandra (American playwright, 1944-____), “The Woman in the White Jogging Suit,”

a 50-minute political drama set in a park, 1980s,

2f,

© 1992, by Sandra Perlman,script/rights available from Franklin Mills Press, P.O. Box 906, Kent, Ohio 44240, U.S.A., telephone 330-673-8632, fax 330- 677-2488, e-mail perl@sperlman.com. Cited to present author by Sandra Perlman via e-mail, January 11, 1996; Perlman says,

  §  Dramatis Personae Magda Schuller (f), an attractive and athletic older woman; Sunrise (f), a white robed follower of ‘Our Holy Mystic, the most benign leader, Mansa Poorna.’

  §  Synopsis “Magda Schuller, an attractive and athletic older woman, goes jogging in a park one morning. There she is offered roses and conversation by Sunrise, a white robed follower of ‘Our Holy Mystic, the most benign leader, Mansa Poorna.’ As they return again and again to meet in a series of encounters ending in a surreal trial, Sunrise reveals the Journey that has brought her to Magda, an artist who was once Hitler’s filmmaker. Together they seek to question and confront the role, rights and responsibilities of the artist in society.
 

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