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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Beth Henley

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
BETH HENLEY

Creating Dream Writing
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn’t a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.
BETH HENLEY

Character Smart Writing
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
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Done Inclination Play
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play Writing
It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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Sister Winter Years
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
BETH HENLEY

Enlightening Kind Playwright
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
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Mother Phones Talking
Plays are so much more special if they’ve never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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Play Special Thinking
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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Christmas School Writing
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
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Art Glorious Play
I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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Class Lying Movement
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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Country Live Work

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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