Impossible Marriage

Beth Henley

Stage & Screen

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Crimes of the Heart comes this poignant but unromanticized story of the hard lives of pioneers on the high plains of Wyoming in the 1860's. Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they have never met. While waiting for their respective husbands-to-be, one bubbling with optimism, the other mousy and plain, the two women become instant best friends. As Abundance follows the two women through their friendship and adventures for the next 25 years, this Western epic unearths the dark underside of American mythology.
 A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ed Begley Jr., Gary Cole, Amy Madigan, Steven Weber and JoBeth Williams.

Abundance.

Literature & Fiction

Henley, Beth

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

Am I Blue

Dramatists Play Service

This drama in three acts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town, the play examines the lives of three quirky sisters who have gathered at the home of the youngest. During the course of the work the sisters unearth grudges, criticize each other, reminisce about their family life, and attempt to understand their mother's suicide years earlier.

Crimes of the Heart. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud. It is Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open the hottest new taxi-dancing emporium in Louisiana and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary.  A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jean Smart, Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, and Kurtwood Smith.

The Lucky Spot.

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Miss Firecracker Contest (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

The Wake of Jamey Foster (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

The Debutante Ball - Acting Edition

Impossible Marriage - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Signature - Acting Edition

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