Understanding Marsha Norman

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204398
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Out written by Marsha Norman and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Released from prison Arlene returns to a rundown apartment in Louisville, intent on starting her life over. Rebellious and disruptive as a young girl, she has found strength in religion and wants to put her youth (as Arlie) behind he

Author : Lisa Tyler
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643360035
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Marsha Norman written by Lisa Tyler and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning play 'night, Mother and her acclaimed adaptations of The Secret Garden and The Color Purple for musical theater, Marsha Norman has produced an impressive oeuvre that includes not only works for the stage but also a novel and several television screenplays. The first book on the Louisville-born writer in twenty years, Understanding Marsha Norman introduces readers to her life and work while making a persuasive case for her preeminence among America's leading dramatic artists. Following a biographical introduction, the book examines such early plays as Getting Out, Third and Oak, and Circus Valentine, which, according to the playwright herself, taught her the skills she needed to write her more successful works—most notably the much-lauded two-character drama 'night, Mother, which centers around an apparently rational young woman's choice to commit suicide. Subsequent chapters examine Norman's underrated novel The Fortune Teller and three mid-career plays that rewrite the traditions of the Western, the biblical story of Sarah and Abraham, and the legend of Daniel Boone. Her more recent plays, including Trudy Blue, 140, and Last Dance, acknowledge the limitations of romantic relationships, while her forays into musical theater and television, including scripts for such programs as Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the Peabody-winning HBO series In Treatment, signal a dramatist who is ever willing to take risks and venture into new genres. At her best when writing about interesting and troubled women and their relationships with each other, Norman has received much less critical attention than male contemporaries such as Sam Shepard and David Mamet. This engaging and edifying book helps rectify that disparity.

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374521387
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'night, Mother written by Marsha Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play focuses on a disappointed and despondent young woman who methodically plans her own death.

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822211686
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveler in the Dark written by Marsha Norman and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A brilliant surgeon and cancer researcher, Sam basks in the aura of success and adulation that his career has brought him. But suddenly his world is shattered when his longtime nurse and confidant, Mavis, dies on the operating table beca

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573629426
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trudy Blue written by Marsha Norman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Night Mother, this engaging play stars a popular author who has grown disillusioned with her family life. She has retreated into conversations with her alter ego, Trudy Blue, who is the heroine of her novels. When a medical scare leads to a terminal diagnosis, her imaginary companion and her fear threaten her grip on reality. Originally produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Trudy Blue played in New York at the MCC Theatre.

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573628856
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving Daniel Boone written by Marsha Norman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, this innovative play by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize blends events in a modern day museum with action on the Kentucky frontier of 1778. Flo, the museum's cleaning woman, embarks on a journey filled with heroes, history and, ultimately, love.

Author : Frances Burnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425050956
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Garden written by Frances Burnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.

Author : John Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Teller written by John Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228058
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

Author : Marsha Norman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573697590
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Garden written by Marsha Norman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited new 70-minute version of the beloved musical is as beautiful and spirited as the original in just half the time. Adapted by Marsha Norman from her Tony award winning book, it tells the story of Mary Lennox, orphaned in India, who returns to Yorkshire to live with an embittered, reclusive uncle and his invalid son. On the estate, she discovers a locked garden filled with magic, a boy who talks to birds, and a cousin she brings back to health by putting him to work in the garden.