The Debutante Ball
by Beth Henley
What readers are saying
Readers have mixed feelings about the play, describing it as both 'absolutely horrible' and 'absolutely fantastic.' The complex narrative and engaging pacing are highlighted, yet the extreme nature of some content may not appeal to everyone.
Synopsis
THE STORY: This stunning comic drama, set in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, begins the morning of Teddy Parker's debutante ball, that archetypal phenomenon in Southern culture known as a maiden's coming out.
Teddy's mother, the beautiful and formidabl
Press Reviews
"…THE DEBUTANTE BALL is the blackest of the Mississippi-born playwright's comedies and probably her best.“ —USA Today. ”THE DEBUTANTE BALL…is also blessed with Henley's striking gifts for outrageous theatricality, off-the-wall dialogue and sharply observed character.“ —The Register. ”What is special about [Henley] as a writer—the sudden bursts of simple emotion, the capturing of joy wrapped up in calamity and the comic obsessions with grotesquerie and bodily functions…—is abundantly evident."
— Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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Publication
The Debutante Ball is a American comedy play written by Beth Henley and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1997).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1997 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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