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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Beth Henley

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Mother Play Theatre
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Kind Playwright
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
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Director People Pigs
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
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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Creating Dream Writing
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
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
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
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Class Long Thinking
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
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Character Emotional Interesting
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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Money Raise Theatre
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Louisiana Lucky Play
I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
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

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