author: mary c hartig

Conversations with Beth Henley

... Miss Firecracker because you could see the beauty contest. In the theater, it's theatrical to have that action offstage and have people come on to give accounts of it. But you wouldn't sit for that for a minute in a movie. AG: In The Miss ...

Encyclopedia of American Drama

... plays with Fat Pig (2004). In the play's preface, LaBute admits to a boost in his selfesteem after losing 60 pounds, andhe uses this obsession withweight in Fat Pig as he examinessociety's prejudicestoward the obesethrough a romantic ...

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama

... Eleemosynary (1985), a young orthography champion victoriously spells out the play's title word, realizing how charity—the meaning of the word—describes rare moments in her family's life. in Two Rooms (1988), while sketching a biologist ...

William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man

... Picnic,” as it relates to its sources in the three earliest manuscripts and ... script. The Man in Boots (MB), May 16, 1949. Typescript. In this version ... Picnic (P), 1953. Before SummerBrave opened on Broadway in February 1953 ...

William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man

... Inge's suicide, Brustein's article can be seen as the turning point in Inge's overall critical ... Bus Stop, and The Dark at the Top ofthe Stairs had been widely profiled as a ... script was changed. “Men-Taming Women of William Inge” (Voss) ...

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