María Irene Fornés

Mud (1983) is one of Maria Irene Fornes 's best plays. Like Fefu and her Friends, it is set in ' 'the preindustrial society ' ' (Savaran 2012, 56); the incidents take place in a small unnamed rural town in the 1930s when feminism was not firmly established, and women were struggling to get their rights. The play revolves around three characters, Mae, the only female character in the play, and two male characters, Lloyd, her illiterate foster brother and former boyfriend, and Henry, her neighbour