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“But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.”

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Beth Henley

Beth Henley is an American playwright known for her unique humor and profound insights into human nature. Her works often explore family relationships and social issues, and her play 'The Miss Firecracker Contest' won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998. more

“Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.”

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Author:Simon Neil

“I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”

Ideas Form Lays Theatre Preacher Playwright Peddling

Book:Twelve Major Plays

Source: Twelve Major Plays

“Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.”

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Author:Kenneth Tynan

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