Marsha Norman
Autor von 'night, Mother: A Play
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The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman (1993-01-01) 4 Exemplare
The secret garden : musical book and lyrics 3 Exemplare
The color purple (performance of Jan. 2008) 1 Exemplar
Lunch With Ginger 1 Exemplar
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The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Mitwirkender — 178 Exemplare
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Mitwirkender — 80 Exemplare
Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired By Seven Shakespearean Sonnets (1998) — Mitwirkender — 69 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1947-09-21
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- Agnes Scott College
- Berufe
- playwright
screenwriter - Organisationen
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1986)
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Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's 1904 New York City world changes when Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and two little sisters move in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from completely different backgrounds, Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger, and grow to be as close as two sisters could ever be. But life is full of surprises and nothing prepares them for the life-altering one that lies just ahead.… (mehr)
This brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Marsha Norman examines the conflict between the will to survive and the choice not to. The original Broadway production made a star of Kathy Bates as the suicidal woman who spends an evening preparing her mother for her departure. This is a riveting script.
Truly one of the best scores in the musical theatre.
About a woman being released from prison, and her history. The woman is split into two characters--Arlie, the rebellious lively girl who entered prison after a robbery gone wrong, and Arlene, the chastened parolee trying to make a life for herself. There isn't really any hope in the play, but at the end Arlene and Arlie accept each other. Arlie/Arlene has been misused and abused, and her resilience and survival strategies are remarkable. But in the end, she is only surviving. As society begins to reckon with the cost of the patriarchy, this pain is all too familiar.… (mehr)
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