Conversations with Beth Henley by Bryer, Jackson R.
Conversations with Beth Henley by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with Beth Henley

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working...
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Author: Jackson R. Bryer
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Language: English
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Conversations with Beth Henley by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with Beth Henley

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Conversations with Beth Henley by Bryer, Jackson R.

Conversations with Beth Henley

BD$37.53
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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."

Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 03/10/2023
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781496844309

About the Author
Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor of Conversations with Neil Simon, in University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series. With Bryer, Mary C. Hartig is coeditor of Conversations with Sam Shepard; Conversations with August Wilson (both published by University Press of Mississippi); and William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man and coauthor of The Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
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