The Edible Woman: Based on the Novel by Margaret Atwood

by Dave Carley

Margaret Atwood's internationally-renowned first novel has been brilliantly adapted for stage by playwright Dave Carley. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, The Edible Woman traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. Marian has a good job, a handsome lawyer-fiancé, and a conventionally bright future. But slowly Marian's consumer world starts slipping out of focus, as she begins instead to identify with the things consumed. Compounding Marian's confusion is her newly-pregnant roommate, her incensed landlady, and that strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat?

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Kyle]

Didn't really enjoy this. I feel it falls miles and miles short of the original Atwood masterpiece it is adapted from. The characters fall flat, the situations fall flat, and it often thinks it is funnier than it is. The ideas and themes of the original novel make it into the adaptation, but they aren't dramatized very well; rather, it's just talking heads.

2/5

[Sherry]

Enjoyed this! Can't remember the book but this play was an entertaining take on one woman's response to her feelings of entrapment - wonder what Margaret Atwood thought of this adaption