An Embarrassing Position is a short play written in 1895"Kate Chopin" . Writers' History. by American author Kate Chopin, which was adapted as a comic opera in 2010 by American composer Dan Shore.
The play Chopin wrote An Embarrassing Position while living in St. Louis, Missouri. She submitted it to the New York Herald drama competition, but did not win. It appeared in the St. Louis Mirror on December 19, 1895. Later, interest in her work grew, and in 1970 the play was published as part of Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories by the Library of America.Zell, Martin Allen. "Stray Leaves: Portrait of the Artist with Two Heads" . NOLA Book and Literary News
The play has been studied as an example of early American literature; for example, it is included in Yvonne Collioud Sisko's book Looking at Literature: 12 Short Stories, a Play, and a Novel.
The opera After Dan Shore rewrote Chopin's play as a comic opera, An Embarrassing Position was first produced by the New England Conservatory in 2010,The Morning Call (March 5, 2011). "Allentown Native Wins Big Easy Award". Retrieved July 30, 2013. and went on to win a Big Easy Entertainment Award"Classical Arts Awards". Gambit: the Best of New Orleans. and the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Competition. The opera has been praised for its lyricism and its evocation of turn-of-the-century New Orleans.
The opera was favorably reviewed in The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate in New Orleans."Theater year in review: N.O. audiences had much to applaud in banner season". New Orleans Times-Picayune. and Gambit magazine.Coviello, Will. "Review: Blue Monday and An Embarrassing Position ". Gambit: The Best of New Orleans.
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