Friday, January 20, 2012

10-Minute Play, Crimes of the Heart

Please pick up Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley from our library. Please read this play next week during our class absence (and your mid-terms).

Beth Henley is a contemporary American playwright best known for her quirky colloquial plays. She has been compared to the Southern writers Flannery o'Connor and Eudora Welty. She carries the dramatic torch of the South in the tradition of Tennessee Williams (more on him soon). 

Her plays are often set in the South (she grew up in Mississippi) and depict the people and settings she grew up with--just another example of a writer writing about what she knows.

Please complete your 10-minute play script today.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.