Garrett envisioned his play as a comedy influenced by the stagecraft of Bertolt Brecht, and like Brecht, he relies on archetypes for the characters and on a portrait of a community for its milieu. We are grateful to George Garrett for the chance to present this lively artifact from his long and distinguished work in American letters. In the spring, we will bring you poet William Jay Smith’s The Straw Market .
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