Conversations with Beth Henley
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Conversations with Beth Henley

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Conversations with Beth Henley

About this book

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd-pleasers, Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest, to her more experimental plays, including The Debutante Ball and Control Freaks, to her brilliant and time-bending play, The Jacksonian. Henley is a master at writing about the duality of human experience—the beautiful and the grotesque, the cruel and the loving. This duality provokes in Henley both amazement and compassion. She discusses here not only her admiration for Chekhov and other influences, but also her process of bringing a play from notebooks of images and bits of dialogues through rumination, writing, and rewriting to rehearsals and previews. The interviews range from 1981, just before she won the Pulitzer Prize, to 2020 and cover nearly forty years of a creative life, which, as Henley remarks in the most recent interview, is "such a life worth living: to be in tune with the creative process."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Works by Beth Henley
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chronology
  8. Beth Henley
  9. Beth Henley
  10. Beth Henley Talks about Her Way of Writing Plays
  11. Life after the Pulitzer
  12. Beth Henley
  13. Mississippi Playwright Downplays Her Success
  14. Beth Henley
  15. The Eccentric Genius of Crimes of the Heart
  16. Beth Henley
  17. Beth Henley
  18. Beth Henley Takes the Director’s Chair for Control Freaks
  19. Beth Henley
  20. Beth Henley: Signature of a Nonstop Playwright
  21. Playing Dollhouse on a Huge Scale: An Interview with Beth Henley
  22. The Mellowing of Miss Firecracker
  23. Stage-Struck in Screen City
  24. Beth Henley
  25. Expressing “The Misery and Confusion Truthfully”: An Interview with Beth Henley
  26. An Interview with Beth Henley
  27. Ridiculous Fraud and The Jacksonian—Beth Henley’s New Plays about the South: An Interview
  28. Beth Henley Returns to New York and Her Southern Roots with Gothic Black Comedy The Jacksonian
  29. The Long Journey Home: An Interview with the Playwright about Her Play The Jacksonian
  30. An Interview with Beth Henley
  31. In Conversation with Theresa Rebeck and Beth Henley
  32. KP Live ABCs: Beth Henley!!!!!!!!
  33. Index
  34. About the Author
  35. Back Cover