The Plays Of Beth Henley

Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202509
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crimes of the Heart written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Smith & Kraus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beth Henley written by Beth Henley and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents six plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Beth Henley, spanning the 1990s, along with photos from their theater productions.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481455
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plays of Beth Henley written by Gene A. Plunka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0822231468
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jacksonian written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200055
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abundance written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780822215837
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Debutante Ball written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert J. Andreach
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036392
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Beth Henley written by Robert J. Andreach and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0822233673
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laugh written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West. The 1920s. Mabel’s had a hard few weeks. A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned; she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt, whose nephew is charged with seducing her to control Mabel’s fortune. This hapless courtship reveals a shared love of silent movies and a plan for greater things. A story of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywood and ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance. A slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart.

Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200215
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Am I Blue written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Henley
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822218753
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Plays written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: CONTROL FREAKS. Sister Willard (a troubled woman who struggles with three personalities: Sister, Spaghetti and Pinkie) returns from jury duty to discover her brother, Carl, has married Betty. Carl and Betty have big plans to open up Fu