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The Debutante Ball
by Beth Henley
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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.
Incredible pacing Loaded and complex narrative 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
Publication
Publisher Dramatists Play Service
Year 1997
Binding Pamphlet
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822215837
ISBN-10 0822215837
LCCN 98115340
LCC PS3558.E4962 D4 1997
DCC 812/.54
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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