TY - SER
KW - labor strikes
KW - trade unions
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Pittsburgh Pirates
KW - unemployment
KW - steel industry
KW - addiction
KW - coal industry
AU - Kathleen Betsko Yale
AB - Iris, 18, a war bride from England, emigrates with her 21-year-old American husband to a coal patch along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania. The newlyweds live in the same house with his Hungarian immigrant, coal miner, parents, and young Iris struggles against the ire of her Old World, stern-peasant mother-in-law.
C1 - 1959
C3 - Washington County; Monongahela River
C4 - Women’s; Labor
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - The play opened in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1982.
N2 - Iris, 18, a war bride from England, emigrates with her 21-year-old American husband to a coal patch along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania. The newlyweds live in the same house with his Hungarian immigrant, coal miner, parents, and young Iris struggles against the ire of her Old World, stern-peasant mother-in-law.
PB - Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1985
RN - Kathleen Betsko Yale (1939- ) was born in Coventry, England, and emigrated to a coal town in the Monongahela Valley with her Western-Pennsylvania native husband. She is an actor, playwright, and poet.
EP - 81 p.
TI - Johnny Bull
ER -