An Embarrassing Position
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An Embarrassing Position is a short play written in 1895[1] by American author Kate Chopin,[2] which was adapted as a comic opera in 2010 by American composer Dan Shore.
Chopin wrote An Embarrassing Position while living in St. Louis, Missouri.[2] She submitted it to the New York Herald drama competition, but did not win.[3] It appeared in the St. Louis Mirror on December 19, 1895.[4] Later, interest in her work grew, and in 1970 the play was published as part of Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories by the Library of America.[5]
The play has been studied as an example of early American literature; for example, it is included in Yvonne Collioud Sisko's book Looking at Literature: 12 Short Stories, a Play, and a Novel.
After Dan Shore rewrote Chopin's play as a comic opera, An Embarrassing Position was first produced by the New England Conservatory in 2010,[6] and went on to win a Big Easy Entertainment Award[7][8] and the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Competition.[9] The opera has been praised for its lyricism[10] and its evocation of turn-of-the-century New Orleans.[11]
The opera was favorably reviewed in The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate in New Orleans.[12] and Gambit magazine.[13]
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