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The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
"Mines a pure vein of Southern Gothic humor worthy of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor" --New York Times Winner 1981 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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Paolo Brega
reviewed Crimes of the Heart on September 16, 2012
Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart, the 1981 Pulitzer prize winning play from Beth Henley was also nominated for the 1982 Tony Award for a Broadway musical.
A later film adaptation featured Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek. At one level this seems like a family version of Sartre's No Exit, as each character seemed to have created her own hell that was made worse by complex interactions with the others.
A better study, though, shows the strong, resilient endurance by the sisters and their ability to come together and overcome "bad days". Another strength of the play itself is the rich history that Henley has created through the narrow lens of the dialogue. Almost like a focused perspective, we learn about characters not in the play but whose actions and influence paint indelible marks on the McGrath sisters, especially the shadow of their mother's suicide and the oppressive tyranny of Old Grandaddy.
Set in Mississippi, this is a Southern family that is reborn from the past, struggling to find a new way.
Excellent.
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