| 1981 | Still Life. First performed in Chicago in 1980 before transferring to New York, this documentary drama is built on interviews with three people in Minnesota--a Vietnam War vet, his battered wife, and his mistress--exploring the domestic side of the Vietnam legacy. Mann, born in Chicago, was inspired for her first play (Annulla Allen: Autobiography of a Survivor, 1977) by the oral histories collected by her father of concentration camp survivors. |
| 1986 | Execution of Justice. Mann's most ambitious drama deals with the trial of Dan White for the 1978 murder of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and gay city supervisor Harvey Milk. It portrays the uproar among San Francisco's gay community when White was sentenced to less than eight years in prison. |
| 1995 | Having Our Say. The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Mann's best-known and most highly praised drama is this adaptation of the best-selling 1993 memoir by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany, chronicling the lives of two elderly African American sisters. |
| 1996 | Greensboro--A Requiem. Described by the playwright as "theater of testimony," the play is based on the murders of five anti-Ku Klux Klan protesters in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1979, using interviews, court transcripts, and personal testimony. |
The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
