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In 1860s Wyoming, mail-order brides Macon Hill and Bess Johnson form a lasting friendship while their marriages and hopes for frontier prosperity founder. After Bess disappears and returns with a public story of captivity, the women confront betrayal, hardship, and the distance between material success and emotional abundance.
Am I Blue is a play by Beth Henley and was written in 1972 and first performed in 1974 at Southern Methodist University. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1982 at the Circle Repertory Company, in a night of plays called Confluence (also featuring Confluence by John Bishop and Thymus Vulgaris by Lanford Wilson).
The tragicomedy relates the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, after Babe shoots her abusive husband. The sisters were raised in a dysfunctional family with a penchant for ugly predicaments. Each has endured her share of hardship and misery. Past resentments bubble to the surface as the sisters are forced to deal with assorted relatives and past relationships while coping with Babe's latest incident. Each sister is forced to face the consequences of the "crimes of the heart" she has committed.
In Brookhaven, Mississippi, Carnelle Scott enters the Fourth of July Miss Firecracker pageant to escape her tarnished reputation and prove she is worthy of acceptance. Her cousins Elain and Delmount, shy seamstress Popeye, and former lover Mac Sam complicate the contest and her efforts to remake herself. Carnelle loses the pageant but finds support in her family and Popeye as they watch the fireworks.
In 1860s Wyoming, mail-order brides Macon Hill and Bess Johnson form a lasting friendship while their marriages and hopes for frontier prosperity founder. After Bess disappears and returns with a public story of captivity, the women confront betrayal, hardship, and the distance between material success and emotional abundance.
Am I Blue is a play by Beth Henley and was written in 1972 and first performed in 1974 at Southern Methodist University. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1982 at the Circle Repertory Company, in a night of plays called Confluence (also featuring Confluence by John Bishop and Thymus Vulgaris by Lanford Wilson).
The tragicomedy relates the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, after Babe shoots her abusive husband. The sisters were raised in a dysfunctional family with a penchant for ugly predicaments. Each has endured her share of hardship and misery. Past resentments bubble to the surface as the sisters are forced to deal with assorted relatives and past relationships while coping with Babe's latest incident. Each sister is forced to face the consequences of the "crimes of the heart" she has committed.
In Brookhaven, Mississippi, Carnelle Scott enters the Fourth of July Miss Firecracker pageant to escape her tarnished reputation and prove she is worthy of acceptance. Her cousins Elain and Delmount, shy seamstress Popeye, and former lover Mac Sam complicate the contest and her efforts to remake herself. Carnelle loses the pageant but finds support in her family and Popeye as they watch the fireworks.