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    A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well"
    A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well"
    A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well"
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    A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well"

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    A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535842556
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      A Study Guide for Lisa Kron's "Well" - Gale

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      Well

      Lisa Kron

      2006

      Introduction

      Lisa Kron's play Well premiered in 2004 and was first published in 2006. In this autobiographical work, Kron features a character meant to represent herself, as well as a character based on her mother. It is overtly structured as a theatrical exploration of themes of individual and community wellness. As the character Lisa explains during the course of the play, she intends as a playwright to use vignettes and montages as a means of exploring the past. She recalls her mother's role as a community organizer who helped integrate her Lansing, Michigan, neighborhood, and remembers scenes from her own time spent in the hospital overcoming symptoms believed by her fatigue-plagued family—her mother in particular—to be the result of allergies. But as the play progresses, the structures Lisa intended to incorporate begin to disintegrate as Lisa's mother inserts herself into the intended play, commenting about the play and about Lisa's mistakes and bonding with the actors, who encourage Lisa to confront the issues Lisa clearly has with her mother. Only after the actor playing Lisa's mother breaks character and speaks to Lisa directly is Lisa finally able to speak truthfully about the past.

      First staged in 2004 in New York, Well premiered on the West Coast in 2005 and on Broadway in 2006. It was published in 2006 by Theatre Communications Group.

      Author Biography

      Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 20, 1961, to parents Walter and Ann Kron. Her mother is a community activist known for founding the Westside Neighborhood Organization in Lansing, Michigan, a group that fought the tide of racial segregation in neighborhoods during the 1960s. Kron's father is a Holocaust survivor and a retired lawyer. In 1965, just after Kron's brother David was born, the family moved to Lansing. Kron graduated as valedictorian from Everett High School in 1979. Afterward, she majored in theater at Kalamazoo College. Kron continued her theatrical studies after college at the Chautauqua Professional Actors Studio and at the British European Studies Group in London. In 1984, Kron moved to New York and worked at various odd jobs while pursuing a career in theater. She found work as an actor at the WOW Café in Manhattan's East Village. Kron, along with four other women—Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy—founded the theatrical company

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