MOTHERS AGAINST is a companion piece to
Daughters of the Revolution.
Set against the background of the same fictional west coast governor’s election (MOTHERS AGAINST about the republican campaign, DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION set among the democrats), the plays stand alone but are enriched by being seen as a pair (jointly titled CONTINENTAL DIVIDE). The cycle is designed so that the eight actors in MOTHERS AGAINST play parts in DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION, which has a cast of fifteen.
“…a total triumph.” —The Guardian (UK).
“…hugely impressive…this is an incisive, dense, intelligent, informative cycle.” —The Times (London).
“Edgar’s writing has a vigour, a swagger, a taut, tense texture that portrays men and women in the white heat of ambition, duplicity, conscience and tortured idealism.” —Sunday Times (London).
“Overwelming…This is a drama about America as it was before George W. Bush, and—we can pray—might one day be again.” —The Observer (London).
“What Edgar has to say is breathtakingly timely. CONTINENTAL DIVIDE is theater as salt lick. You lap it up.” —The New York Times.
“Heady, impassioned and unfalteringly politically engaged…as exciting in ambition as it is penetrating.” —San Francisco Chronicle.
