Let's Hear It for the 'Wives' - Jaclyn Backhaus' new time-hopping play puts the women behind the great men center stage
Jaclyn Backhaus' new time-hopping play puts the women behind great men center stage---Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus doesn't do straightforward linear narratives, which she describes as "patriarchal plot structure." She's made that clear with her surreal, gleefully anachronistic shows such as Men on Boats, an inventive dramatization of the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 with a diverse cast of women portraying the m…