My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
BETH HENLEYIt’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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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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I love writing for the screen.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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