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Conversations with Beth Henley (Paperback)
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Conversations with Beth Henley (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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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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