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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.

Beth Henley

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.
BETH HENLEY

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’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
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
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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College Dog School
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.
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Character Smart Writing
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
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
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.
BETH HENLEY

Sister Winter Years
That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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Destiny Giving Smoking
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
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
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
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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Copyright Novelists Poets
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY

Couple Play Writing
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 did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.

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