Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780822202509

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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


Abundance

Abundance

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780822200055

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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


The Jacksonian

The Jacksonian

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0822231468

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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.


Am I Blue

Am I Blue

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780822200215

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The Debutante Ball

The Debutante Ball

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822215837

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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


The Wake of Jamey Foster

The Wake of Jamey Foster

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780822212171

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THE STORY: 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 mourne


A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "Impossible Marriage"

A Study Guide for Beth Henley's

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1410349330

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A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "Impossible Marriage," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.


The Lucky Spot

The Lucky Spot

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780822207061

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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


Impossible Marriage

Impossible Marriage

Author: Beth Henley

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780822216971

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THE STORY : The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter, Pandora, is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall does not think the match to be at


Desire – Six One-Act Plays

Desire – Six One-Act Plays

Author: Elizabeth Egloff

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-02-07

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0822236737

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ATTACK OF THE GIANT TENT WORMS. Billy and Clara are nearing the end of their summer vacation on Cape Cod, as their cottage is being devoured by billions of tent-worms. Worse, Billy has just gotten word from his oncologist that there are no more treatment options for his brain cancer. A darkly humorous exploration of which is more terrifying: bugs or death? (1 man, 1 woman.) DESIRE QUENCHED BY TOUCH. In 1950s New Orleans, a black masseur must account for the disappearance of his favorite white customer. People don’t just vanish inside massage parlors… (3 men.) THE FIELD OF BLUE CHILDREN. Everything in Layley’s life is going according to plan. She belongs to the best sorority at her university and has a devoted boyfriend who could easily become a devoted husband. But Layley suspects that there is more to life than stifling conformity. So she signs up for a poetry class in the hopes of expressing herself. There she meets Dylan, a sensitive poet with whom she enjoys a night of passion that opens up a truly revolutionary prospect: living a life of her own. (3 men, 4 women.) ORIFLAMME. Oriflamme (noun): A red or scarlet banner; a knight’s standard; a rallying principle…Sickly Anna Kimball, on her final day, reaches out for, and becomes, all of these. (1 man, 1 woman.) YOU LIED TO ME ABOUT CENTRALIA. Jim, the Gentleman Caller, leaves the Wingfields’ disastrous dinner party to meet his fiancée Betty’s train. The evening won’t turn out the way either of them expected. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN A VIOLIN CASE AND A COFFIN. Tom and his sister Roe’s childhood comes to a painful end when Richard Miles, who moves in light, arrives in town with his violin in a case. (2 men, 4 women.)