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Crimes of the heart / by Beth Henley.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.E4962 C7 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henley, Beth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Drama.
- Families.
- Death--Drama.
- Death.
- Marriage--Drama.
- Marriage.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- American drama--20th century.
- American drama.
- Hazlehurst (Miss.)--Drama.
- Hazlehurst (Miss.).
- Mississippi--Hazlehurst.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Mystery fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Dramatists Play Service, [1982]
- Summary:
- 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 familys painful past.
- 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 at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future--but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
- Notes:
- Cast: 2 men, 4 women.
- "Presented on Broadway by Warner Theatre Productions, Inc./Claire Nichtern, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards, and Francine Lefrak, at the Golden Theatre, in New York City, on November 4, 1981"--Page 3.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Henley, Beth. Crimes of the heart.
- ISBN:
- 0822202506
- 9780822202509
- 0670247812
- 9780670247813
- 0140481737
- 9780140481730
- OCLC:
- 8570269
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