... about Emily Mann s play. Annulla, after all, may speak out of her own knowledge and experi- ence of war; Emily Mann does not. Annulla objects to Brecht seeing Contemporary American playwrights ... language. (Testimonies,p.) Contemporary American playwrights 2 Emily Mann, Testimonies: Four Plays (New York, ), p. . And so a European story becomes an American story: not the revelation ... by the resulting tran- script that she wished toturn it intoa play. This desire, in turn, led toher Emily Mann 1 David Savran, In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights (New York,...