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Back in the 16th century, political plays were all about men. Not now. For some time, American female playwrights have followed the (1)_____ of Wendy Wasserstein, a 50-year-old Brooklyn-born dramatist, whose work has focused (2)_____ family drama and personal (3)_____. Overtly political plays were considered (4)_____ and unfashionable. But this is no longer so often the (5)_____.
A new generation of female playwrights (6)_____ tackling such subjects (7)_____ racism, rape and apartheid. The quality of these plays has varied (8)_____. The best (9)_____ their subjects with nuance and subtlety, while it is the more controversial productions (10)_____ fall flat. With topical issues now the stuff of shallow, made-for-television movies, audiences are looking to the theatre for something more (11)_____.
Rebecca Gilman"s previous play, "Spinning into Butter", dealt with white racism in academia; her current drama, "Boy Gets Girl", gives a feminist take on male searching and objectification of women. Kia Corthron has three plays, including "Force Continuum", (12)_____ with racial issues (13)_____ or coming to the New York stage this year. But perhaps the most (14)_____ recent play on political themes to (15)_____ is "The Syringa Tree", a one-woman show about segregation in South Africa in the 1960s, written and (16)_____ by Pamela Glen. (17)_____ the play had trouble (18)_____ an audience when it (19)_____ in September last year, critical acclaim and persistent word-of-mouth followed, gradually (20)_____ to make "The Syringa Tree" one of the city"s most popular offerings.
A．model
B．pattern
C．mode
D．fashion请帮忙给出正确答案和分析，谢谢！