Staging Modernist LivesThree modernist women, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886 1961), Mina Loy (1882 1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896 1965), came to define the interwar avant garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these womens lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in