Series I: Play Scripts and Production Records, 1961-2001, inclusive

This series includes original and revised scripts in both paper and electronic format for a little over half of Irene Fornés' work, including some of her earliest plays and her last working play, Rue de Fleurus (concerning Gertrude Stein). It also includes a script for Minuski, a previously-unknown work, and La Plaza Chica, Fornés' translation and adaptation of her play Abingdon Square into Spanish. In addition, there are scores for some of her plays with songs; a libretto for an opera; and scripts and staging notes for Fornés' directing, translating, and adapting of other writers' plays or stories (such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Drowning). There are numerous drafts or versions of Fornes' scripts written, edited, or adapted for different productions of a play, or revised after the completion of a run of a particular production. Many of the scripts are not complete, and most of them have Fornés' handwritten--often extensive--annotations and revisions. Production records for various stagings of her own plays and productions she directed of others' works include memos, notes, set designs, cast lists, and calls for auditions.