On Friday, March 4th, Chrystyna Dail, Associate Professor of Theatre History in the Department of Theatre Arts, presented her paper: “'If you will do a maid’s work, be more careful about it'": Staging Female Friendship in the Early Twentieth Century" at the Mid-America Theatre Conference. Her paper explores the popular piece Anne, of Old Salem (1906) by Clara Burbank Batchelder, and how it fulfilled a need for more women’s roles in performance while reframing female friendship for the stage.
Chrystyna Dail Presents on the History of Female Friendship in U.S. Theatre
By Sherri Dunham, March 9, 2022