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freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
Crimes of the Heart par Beth Henley
Perhaps I would have liked this play a bit more if I had seen it on the stage. The craziness of these 3 sisters from Mississippi felt a little tired to me, a bit too stereotypical, while the problems they were facing were in some cases so serious that the characters' attitudes struck me as incredible - something aped from the late 19th century or from the old TV show "Designing Women" instead of from real life.

Listened to this play via streaming courtesy of LATW website
 
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leslie.98 | 7 autres critiques | Apr 5, 2020 |
Crimes of the Heart par Beth  Henley
A fairly straightforward play. I'm not quite sure how this won the Pulitzer Prize, as I did not really witness anything extraordinary or amazing. Overall, the characters felt somewhat real but they also suffered from, in my opinion, a bit of overacting and overbearing in regards to the reader.

3 stars.
 
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DanielSTJ | 7 autres critiques | Aug 3, 2019 |
Crimes of the Heart par Beth Henley
A southern family faces a crisis when one of the sisters shoots her husband. This happens before the play begins; the bulk of the play is less about the shooting than about the relationships between the three girls, with a couple of other factors thrown in for complexity. Difficult to find too many people in this group to like, or to feel sympathy with, but there is still the ability to engage as you watch people losing all touch with reality and moving toward destruction. The ending is ambiguous and unresolved; that is not a complaint, as I often find that compelling in a dramatic work. It's hard to see this as a masterpiece, but it is definitely past competent, with the various threads skillfully woven, though a few stitches are dropped in the weaving.
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Devil_llama | 7 autres critiques | Oct 11, 2017 |
Am I Blue par Beth Henley
A one act play about two young people who are not part of the in crowd. The main problem with this work is that doing this as a one act, with the situation given, left the characters feeling two dimensional. There are a lot of things going on here that are not developed well, and it is as unsatisfying as having a Twinkie when you want a slice of cheesecake.½
 
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Devil_llama | 1 autre critique | May 28, 2015 |
Crimes of the Heart par Beth Henley
Copish County Mississippi, Hazelhurst. Beauregard.
Hurricane Cordelia blew through Biloxi.
 
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kitchengardenbooks | 7 autres critiques | Mar 25, 2010 |
Impossible Marriage par Beth Henley
What started out as a really promising romantic comedy quickly turns into an unbelievably far-fetched middling play. The dialogue in particular becomes especially stilted about 20 pages in. My first impression was that this would be a great play to direct: fun, quirky, entertaining characters. Halfway through I realized that no one would want to see what the play had turned into.
 
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lulamaegirl | Jan 11, 2010 |
Crimes of the Heart (Dramatists Play Services) par Beth Henley
When Babe manages to rather mysteriously shoot her Senator husband, the women of her family surround each other in an attempt to weather out the fall-out. This play is more of a character study than a plot-intensive peice of drama. It does manage to cover some very serious issues: suicide, justifyable violence, etc. in a humorous and well-put-together background. Still, I think it must have been a sparce year in 1972 for this to have won the Pulitzer. It's a good play, but nothing monumental.
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opinion8dsngr | 7 autres critiques | Apr 7, 2007 |
 
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simchaboston | 7 autres critiques | Nov 1, 2005 |
 
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kutheatre | 1 autre critique | Jun 4, 2015 |
 
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kutheatre | 7 autres critiques | Jun 4, 2015 |
Crimes of the heart : a play par Beth Henley
http://www.enotes.com/crimes-heart
enotes.com: At the end of 1980, Crimes of the Heart was produced off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club for a limited, sold-out, engagement of thirty-two performances. By the time the play transferred to Broadway in November, 1981, Crimes of the Heart had received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Henley was the first woman to win the Pulitzer for Drama in twenty-three years, and her play was the first ever to win before opening on Broadway. Crimes of the Heart went on to garner the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New American Play, a Guggenheim Award, and a Tony nomination. The tremendously successful Broadway production ran for 535 performances, spawning regional productions in London, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Houston. The success of the play—and especially the prestige of the Pulitzer award—assured Henley's place among the elite of the American theatre for years to come. As Henley herself put it, with typically wry humor, ' 'winning the Pulitzer Prize means I'll never have to work in a dog-food factory again" (Haller 44).
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mmckay | 7 autres critiques | Aug 25, 2007 |
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