Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020

A riff on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic domestic horror story about a woman driven crazy by the rest cure for post-partum depression, YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0 2020 is about a female adjunct professor trying to thrive in COVID quarantine despite her toddler and demanding husband outside her bedroom and the personal demons she faces within.

Written at as a Travis Bogard Artist in Residence at Tao...
A riff on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic domestic horror story about a woman driven crazy by the rest cure for post-partum depression, YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0 2020 is about a female adjunct professor trying to thrive in COVID quarantine despite her toddler and demanding husband outside her bedroom and the personal demons she faces within.

Written at as a Travis Bogard Artist in Residence at Tao House. Great Plains Theatre Conference 2022
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Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020

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  • Ava Love Hanna:
    14 Oct. 2023
    Jennifer Maisel offers us a modern interpretation of Gilman’s classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper. While the setting of the story is now contemporary – the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic – the themes of the original work are present. T’s struggles with motherhood, subordination, isolation, and eventually her physical and mental health reveal that while much has changed for women – much has stayed the same. Maisel’s narrative, however, is enhanced by the addition of T’s discovery of Perkin’s racism – an addition that elevates this version beyond a mere modern retelling into something far more powerful.
  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn:
    29 Mar. 2022
    This is such a shattering and relatable piece. I too, read the Yellow Wallpaper as a young scholar and was forever changed by it. I too, was somewhat grateful and comforted by being isolated during the pandemic. But the twist of "the after" is what really shook me. The post partem depression is understandable in today's world. The lack of assistance with child rearing, very familiar. But Charlotte's words beyond The Yellow Wallpaper are so unrelatable and the discovery of those words breaks not only T, but this reader as well. Heartbreakingly superb work here.
  • Stephanie Alison Walker:
    24 Mar. 2022
    This play is a visceral and highly relatable look at what it means to be a woman in this world today through the lens of the early days of Covid. As usual, Maisel's writing is highly poetic, specific and visual. With Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020, she takes us on a journey of one family and makes us face our own struggles as individuals and partners.

Development History

  • Reading
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    Andromeda's Sisters - NeoPolitical Cowgirls
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    2022
  • Workshop
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    Great Plains Theatre Conference
    ,
    2022

Awards

Semi-Finalist
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O'Neill NPC
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The O'Neill
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2022