The play A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro and Consecrated Ground by George Boyd deals with two marginalized groups (women and African-Canadians). The plays, in part, deal with the idea of “Agency”.
Agency: the ability of individuals to act on their own behalf, with free will, in the hope of changing the conditions surrounding them.
Choose one of the plays (based on race or gender) and discuss how each author deals with marginalization and Agency. What do they say about these groups? Do they genuinely have Agency, or is that a myth?
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