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In the following essay, Harbin examines five of Henley's plays, focusing on the "themes related to the disintegration of traditional ideals, such as the breakup of families, the quest fo...
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Crimes of the Heart was first produced in 1979 at the Actors Theater of Louisville. It was then presented at several regional theaters before being staged off-Broad-way at the Manhattan Theater Club i...
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In the following review, the critic offers a laudatory review of the plays collected in Four Plays.
Four Plays, by Beth Henley, is a collection of plays written since Crimes of the Heart (1981) and de...
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In the following excerpt, Simon deems Impossible Marriage ditzy and uninteresting.
The program for Beth Henley's Impossible Marriage says, “The play is in three parts and is performed wi...
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In the following essay, Shepard explores the effects of the feminist movement on the female protagonists of Henley's plays, in particular examining the recurring images of homicide and suicide....
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In the following mixed review, Jacobs maintains that Control Freaks “is often as darkly hilarious as it is startling.”
Control Freaks is almost surely the first R-rated play to use the s...
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Critical Essay by Michael Feingold
The only question [in Am I Blue, a one-act by Beth Henley,] is whether the familiar comedy of a jabbering eccentric girl and a neurotically square older boy will be ...
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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr
["Am I Blue"] is a comedy and comes equipped with a good bit of manic energy. Looked at in perspective, and taken for the collegiate exercise it is, the bro...
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Critical Essay by Billy J. Harbin
