CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley directed by Warner Shook May 7 - June 6, 2010 Segerstrom Stage
Babe shot her husband because he looked funny, Meg just hit town from Hollywood and a nervous breakdown, Lenny’s fast becoming an old maid and today her pet horse got hit by lightning. They’re the Magrath sisters of Hazelhurst, Mississippi, and they’re the invention of SCR favorite Beth Henley, who won the Pulitzer Prize for this play. She may heap tragedy after tragedy upon her heroines but does so with love, compassion and a prodigious sense of humor—and then brings out the chocolate cake and lemonade to get them through it all. You’ll want to sit right down at the kitchen table and share their laughter.
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Playwright Bio
Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for Crimes of the Heart. Smith and Kraus published a two-volume collection of 12 of her plays including The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Wake of Jamey Foster, The Debutante Ball, The Lucky Spot, Abundance, Signature, Control Freaks and Impossible Marriage. Ms. Henley wrote the screenplay for the film version of Crimes of the Heart, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She also wrote the screenplays for The Miss Firecracker Contest, Nobody’s Fool, Trying Times and True Stories. Ms. Henley is the Presidential Professor of Theatre Arts at LMU/LA.
