Machinal
Sophie Treawell1993

Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husmand and gone to the electric chair. Out of this came MACHINAL, a powerfull expresionist drama about the dependent status of women and the living hell of a loveless marriage.
Succesfully premiered on Broadway in 1928 with Clark Gable as the lover, the play was seen in London two years later, provoked a sensation in Tairov's version in Moscow in 1933, and was then largely forgotten until revivals in New-York and London in the 1990s. This volume is published alongside the 1993 production at the Royal National Theatre starring Fiona Shaw and directed by Stephen Daldry.

Titre original : Machinal (1993)