Beth Henley
Author
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Language
English
Description
This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their family's painful past. A BBC co-production. A full-cast production featuring: Ray Baker, Donna Bullock, Arye Gross, Glenne Headly, Sondra
...3) Abundance
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
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 determined about getting on with a life in the West, one that promises to be full of possibility. The husbands arrive. Bess, expecting Mike Flynn, gets his brother, Jack. Macon's husband is William Curtis, a widower with...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Deeply touching play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Set in smalltown Mississippi a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (alias Miss Hot Tamale) is rehearsing for the Miss Firecracker contest. The arrival of her cousin Elain, a former contest winner, complicates matters, as does Elain's brother Delmount's repeated threat to sell the family homestead and decamp to New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
The scene is a small-town in Mississippi, where the family of Jamey Foster, a failed poet and would-be historian, who was kicked in the head by a cow while consorting with his mistress in a pasture, have gathered for his wake. The mourners, who include Jamey's estranged wife; her sister and brother and the brother's fey girlfriend; Jamey's upwardly mobile brother and his oppressively doting wife; and an eccentric family friend who raises pigs; all...
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce. Fred, the motel bartender, and Eva, a waitress, are locked in a gruesome pact:...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
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 formidable Jen Parker Turner has willed this event into being. Ostracized from polite society ever since she was accused and - under much speculation and gossip - acquitted of the murder of her wealthy husband, Jen has been...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
It is Christmastime 1934 -- the low point of the Great Depression -- and compulsive gambler Reed Hooker is preparing for the grand opening of his newly acquired rural dance hall, the Lucky Spot, while juggling friends, enemies, his estranged wife, and his pregnant girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
The story begins in a seedy New Orleans bar where John Polk Richards, a college freshman whose fraternity brothers have paid his way into a bordello as an eighteenth birthday present, is bolstering his courage with liquor. He is approached by Ashbe, a fey young creature who invites him to the littered apartment that she shares with her absent father. As high strung and flaky as John Polk is nervous and tentative, Ashbe initiates him into her secret...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel bring together six wonderfully teachable plays by some of the greatest American women dramatists of the past fifty years— Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Beth Henley, and Susan Yankowitz. The editors provide a helpful Introduction to the last 100 years of theatrical activity, from suffrage and anti-lynching plays, through the explosive 1960s, to...
14) True stories
Series
Criterion collection ; 951
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation ot what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic...
