In March 2019, a few days before the Covid lockdown, I was moderating a talkback in New York City for a production of Maria Irene Fornes’s musical, Promenade, which we were remounting at New York University, just a few blocks away from the original location of the 1965 production at Judson Memorial Church. Having invited the Fornes scholar Marc Robinson to participate, I asked him if he had a copy of the script for Evelyn Brown (A Diary), a play of Fornes’s that I had been searching for, as no complete copy of the script seemed to exist. Robinson responded that Fornes had given him a copy of the script when he was preparing his edited volume, The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes, in the mid-1990s.1 He later shared this document, which, unbeknownst to him, was the closest version to a complete script that I had...

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