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From the Archives: Let Them Eat Plays
This essay, originally printed in the Winter 1996 edition of The Dramatists Guild Quarterly, was adapted by Wendy Wasserstein from an address she delivered in November at the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York’s 1995 annual meeting.
Portrait by A.E. Kieren
L ast year I went to Washington with Melanie Griffith, Joanne Woodward, and Walter Moseley to lobby for the National Endowment for the Arts. The Speaker of the House had not met with NEA chairman Jane Alexander in the entire time she had been there, and he decided to have breakfast with us largely because of Melanie. He told Melanie he had written a novel which had two parts for her in the movie version: the sultry nanny or the dutiful wife. Finally they told me to speak.
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