... gave way Paula Vogel 6 Stephanie Coen, Paula Vogel: No Need for Gravity’, American Theatre (April ), p. . to the s, and financial restraint gave further impetus to a conserva- tive ... paradoxically, given her instruction, ends in a black-out. The play, like Bauer’s, is suffused with Contemporary American playwrights 8 Paula Vogel, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays (New York, ... shared endea- vour sustaining them even as, one by one, they slip from the story, dying offstage, appropriately enough during a series of black-outs. Contemporary American playwrights Vogel has...