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"This one-woman play is subtitled "Tragicomic Monologue for an Impetuous Woman." Miss Margarida is an eighth-grade teacher, and the audience is the class. Miss Margarida alternately harangues, confides in, attempts to seduce, and TRIES to teach the listening students over the course of two hours. Athayde has said that over the course of the play he intended Miss Margarida to represent every form of power that is exerted over the individual in his or her lifetime -- maternal, social, educational, political, economical, and so on. The script is entertaining reading, but if you are lucky enough to see a production, there's a liveliness and edge to it, because class participation is encouraged, and the actress has to improvise to cover and control it. I saw Estelle Parsons triumph in the role; she made me come up to the front of the class and eat my paper airplane."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Training/promotions story
Yes
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Political/social activism
Yes
Life of a profession:
- teacher
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
- wild
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 1 ()
Style
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
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