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Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822202509 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 116
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THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822202509 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 116
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THE STORY: The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried
Author: Robert J. Andreach Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570036392 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 220
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Beth Henley remains best known for 'Crimes of the Heart', a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made into a major motion picture. This introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work presents Henley's plays as a unified whole.
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 9780822200055 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 76
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THE STORY: Bess Johnson and Macon Hill are mail-order brides who meet while waiting for their husbands to pick them up to start life in a small town in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s. Bess is a romantic while Macon Hill is exuberant and determi
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 0822231468 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 56
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Jackson, Mississippi, 1964. When his wife kicks him out, respectable dentist Bill Perch moves into the seedy Jacksonian Motel. There, his downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a gold-digging motel employee, a treacherous bartender, and his now-estranged wife. Revolving around the night of a murder, THE JACKSONIAN brims with suspense and dark humor and unearths the eerie tensions and madness in a town poisoned by racism.
Author: Gene A. Plunka Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786481455 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 235
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Beth Henley's twelve complete plays (three of which have been turned into films) have achieved worldwide production. At age 29, she produced her first full-length drama, Crimes of the Heart, which won a Pulitzer Prize and garnered three Academy Award nominations as a film. Her Mississippi upbringing and her penchant for the eccentricities of southern culture, however, have caused critics to categorize her writing as a kind of southern gothic folklore inspired by feminist ideology. This book, the first critical study of Henley's complete plays, attempts to dispel the common stereotypes that associate Henley's work with regional drama and sociological treatises. It argues instead that Henley can best be perceived as a dramatist who delineates an existential despair manifested in various forms of what Freud calls the modern neurosis. The book maintains that Henley's plays must be understood as universal statements about the angst of modern civilization, and Henley's characters are assessed in light of Freud's proposition that cultural restrictions create neurotic individuals. The introduction provides a brief account of Henley's childhood and career. Early chapters summarize the theory of the modern angoisse espoused in Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, while later chapters relate this theory to thematic and stylistic elements of Henley's most popular play, Crimes of the Heart, as well as Am I Blue, The Wake of Jamie Foster, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Debutante Ball, The Lucky Spot, Abundance, Signature, Control Freaks, Revelers, L-Play, and Impossible Marriage.
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN: 9780822215837 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 68
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THE STORY: This stunning comic drama, set in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, begins the morning of Teddy Parker's debutante ball, that archetypal phenomenon in Southern culture known as a maiden's coming out. Teddy's mother, the beautiful and formidabl
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Incorporated ISBN: 9781575252001 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 320
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Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart, which was the co-winner in 1979 of the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Henley's screenplay for the film version of Crimes of the Heart won her an Academy Award Nomination. The film was directcd by Bruce Beresford and starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. She wrote the screenplay for Miss Firecracker starring Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen and Tim Robbins, the screenplay for Nobody's Fool starring Rosanna Arquette and Eric Roberts, a teleplay for the PBS series, Trying Times, and co-wrote David Byrne's True Stories. Beth Henley was born and raised in Mississippi, is a graduate from Southern Methodist University and lives in Los Angeles with her son Patrick.
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822207061 Category : Ballrooms Languages : en Pages : 88
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THE STORY: The place is Pigeon, Louisiana, the time Christmas 1934--at the low point of the American Depression. Reed Hooker, a compulsive gambler, has won a rundown rural dance hall in a poker game, and hopes that it will make his fortune. Assisted
Author: Beth Henley Publisher: Smith & Kraus ISBN: Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 296
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Presents six plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Beth Henley, spanning the 1990s, along with photos from their theater productions.
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Robert J. Andreach
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Gene A. Plunka
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley
Author: Beth Henley