Chamber Music (play)

Chamber Music
Written by	Arthur Kopit
Genre	One-act play • Theatre of the Absurd
Setting	An insane asylum in 1938

Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit.^[1] The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum.

The women are — or at least believe they are — author Gertrude Stein, martyr Joan of Arc, activist Susan B. Anthony, politician Queen Isabella I of Spain, Constanze Mozart (wife of the famed composer), pilot Amelia Earhart, silent-film actress Pearl White, and explorer Osa Johnson. They have come together to represent the women of the asylum in planning for an attack they believe is soon to come from the men's ward. The doctor is an omnipresent figure in the asylum, checking in on the women.

In the context of the play, it is suggested that the woman who claims that she is Amelia Earhart could be telling the truth instead of being insane, given the time frame and that Earhart went missing.

There are beliefs that they play is meant to symbolize the sexist, and unjust treatment of women throughout history.

The play was published by Hill and Wang, New York, and was first performed at Society Hill Playhouse.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Some sources date it to 1965.
2. ^ http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kopit-arthur.html#19557 Entry on Chamber Music

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