Plays by Author - Beth Henley

Ridiculous Fraud

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

A disastrous New Orleans wedding rehearsal dinner is the latest in a series of unfortunate events that befall the Clay brothers in this boisterous and bittersweet comedy ... Daddy's in jail for fraud, Uncl...

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Monologues for Women

Beth Henley

Dramaline Publications

A marvelous collection of monololgues from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley. Wrought with insight and sensitivity, these speeches sparkle with originality and the gift of the poet Taken from: "...

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The Wake of Jamey Foster

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

The scene is a small-town in Mississippi, where the family of Jamey Foster, a failed poet and would-be historian, who was kicked in the head by a cow while consorting with his mistress in a pasture, have ...

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Signature

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Two brothers, Boswell and Maxwell, are living in Los Angeles in the year 2052. Knowing he is seriously ill, Boswell seeks to revive his fame as a once acclaimed art philosopher In his obsession to leave...

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The Debutante Ball

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 5 Female

This stunning comic drama, set in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, begins the morning of Teddy Parker's debutante ball, that archetypal phenomenon in Southern culture known as a maiden's "coming out" Teddy's mo...

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The Lucky Spot

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

The place is Pigeon, Louisiana, the time Christmas 1934, at the low point of the American Depression. Reed Hooker, a compulsive gambler, has won a rundown rural dance hall in a poker game, and hopes that i...

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Crimes of the Heart

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 4 Female

Winner Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award 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 ...

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Impossible Marriage

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

"A brisk and perky new comedy. What gives the play its savor and joy are, as usual, Henley's women - those ditsy females, unknown to natural law, who always seem to get their own way, disconcerting even when...

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Revelers

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

The play takes place in a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where devotees of Dash Grey, the charismatic artistic director of Chicago's Red Lantern Theatre, have come to commemorate his death Jasper...

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Am I Blue

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Begins in a seedy New Orleans bar where John Polk Richards, a college freshman whose fraternity brothers have paid his way into a bordello as an eighteenth birthday present, is bolstering his courage with ...

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Laugh

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

A slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart The West in the 1920s Mabel's had a hard few weeks A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned...

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The Jacksonian

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Jackson, Mississippi, 1964 When his wife kicks him out, respectable dentist Bill Perch moves into the seedy Jacksonian Motel His downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a go...

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Abundance

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Bess Johnson and Macon Hill are mail-order brides who meet while waiting for their husbands to pick them up to start life in a small town in the Wyoming Territory in the 1860s Bess is a romantic while Ma...

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Three Plays - Control Freaks & L-Play & Sisters Of The Winter Madrigal

Beth Henley

Dramatists Play Service

Control Freaks ~ Sister Willard (a troubled woman who struggles with three personalities: Sister, Spaghetti and Pinkie) returns from jury duty to discover her brother, Carl, has married Betty Carl and B...

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