Marsha Norman
Paperback | Pages: 66 pages Rating: 3.92 | 10116 Users | 242 Reviews
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| Title | : | night, Mother |
| Author | : | Marsha Norman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 66 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1983 by Dramatists Play Service (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Theatre. Fiction. Classics. Literature. 20th Century. Academic. School |
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'night, Mother is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.
'night, Mother had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December 1982. It opened on Broadway in March 1983, directed by Tom Moore and starring Anne Pitoniak and Kathy Bates; a film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, was released in 1986.
'night, Mother had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December 1982. It opened on Broadway in March 1983, directed by Tom Moore and starring Anne Pitoniak and Kathy Bates; a film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, was released in 1986.
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| Original Title: | 'night, Mother |
| ISBN: | 0822208210 (ISBN13: 9780822208211) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1983) |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 10116 Users | 242 ReviewsRate About Books night, Mother
Moving but deeply depressing. This one-act play only showcases a daughter who's about to commit suicide and her mother. Essentially, they've lived together for years but have little real understanding of each other. Jessie, the daughter, has suffered from epilepsy her entire life but, after being well for an entire year, decides that now is the best time for her life to end and that she must be the one who controls the circumstance under which it happens.Jessie's mother, conversely, has a hardDamn.
Truly one of my favorite stories of all times. I cry every time I read it. I also wrote a 30-page paper on it, so I think it is fair to call me obsessed. It's a play, so you can easily read it in one sitting...just not on mother's day. :o)
Nomadic SA Chick's Book ReviewsSummaryJessie is tired. She's tired of her life, of disappointment, or heart-aches, and fight. Jessie wants to die. Recently divorced, Jessie has moved back in with her widowed mother, along with her wild-child teenage son. On a lonely night, Jessie shares her death plan with her mother, and there begins the play as her mother tries everything she can to get Jessie to change her mind.ReviewThis play left me speechless. Norman did a great job writing on such a heavy
Much of the play felt amateurishly calculated and redundant. The integration of the characters' history through dialogue was clumsily cobbled between spurts of the mother's protests and felt canned. The writing almost seems like an acting exercise of clear objectives and tactics that would be useful for scene work except it carries on for too long to remain interesting. The tactics and literary devices are so unsubtle the play reads like an amateur trying to write a play about suicide but only
Night, Mother is Marsha Norman's play that won the Pulitzer for drama in 1983. Produced the year after Beth Henley won the Pulitzer for Crimes of the Heart, the two women ushered in a renaissance of Southern female play writing. Chilling in its message and delivered with no intermission, 'Night, Mother tells the tale of a mother and daughter grappling to stay afloat in life. Forty-year-old Jessie Cates has battled epilepsy, mental illness, and depression for her entire life. Following her
I'm a huge fan of melodrama and this definitely was in my wheelhouse. I didn't really know what to expect going into this one and honestly didn't really see what was coming until Jessie tells Mama her plan outright. Which at first seemed very lazy stylistically speaking, I didn't feel any build up. But with everything happening so fast it was weird to basically see the tension grow starting at the point of her big reveal right up until the very last page. Characters felt eerily real to me as
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