unters. Fefu and Her Friends was in part inspired by the loft-like acting space in which it was to be produced, and this is one reason why the second act takes place simultaneously in four different locations. Her play The Danube involves a romance between an English-language teacher and his pupil in post-World War II Hungary before moving into an unidentified post-apocalyptic future. The idea for this play came from the discovery by Fornes of a recording of Hungarian language lessons in a second-hand record store. The play was commissioned as an anti-nuclear-weapons play by Theater for the New City. Mud is a dark domestic triangle, and central to it is a woman trapped and abused who seeks freedom and escape. What she gets is a bullet from her husband. This play was written after Fornes came across a broom in a rummage shop, and it became a central prop in the play. The Conduct of Life is considered one of her most terrifying plays. It is a brutal examination of the moral and spiritual corruption in the lives of a Latin American colonel and his wife. By the end of the play, the wife kills the husband with a gun, and a gun is a prop frequently appearing in Fornes's plays. Fornes has won several Obies for her work (awards given to off-Broadway plays), including one for sustained achievement in t
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