Beth Henley

Playwright

1952-08-08

Quotes by Beth Henley

• 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'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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• I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

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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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• 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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