Marsha Norman

Dramatist

1947-09-21

Books by Marsha Norman

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Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
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Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.
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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.
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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
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