| 1967 | Futz. First performed at the Tyrone Guthrie Workshop in 1965, Owens's initial dramatic success is a controversial experimental drama that wins the Obie Award. One of the era's most outrageous, it concerns the sexual relationship between a man and his pig. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Owens would continue to shock, exploring themes of perversity, violence, and repression in works such as Belch (1967), Kontraption (1970), and The Karl Marx Play (1973). |
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