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Posted: 1/18/07 at 8:44pm
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MARSHA NORMAN, playwright, was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College, her M.A. from the University of Louisville, the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk Awards for ‘Night, Mother. For its treatment of suicide, the play was presented by the Mayo Foundation’s INSIGHT program to audiences of doctors around the country. The play has been translated into 23 languages and has been selected for publication in both British and American college textbooks. A feature film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek was released in August of 1986, for which Miss Norman wrote the screenplay. ‘Night, Mother received a Broadway revival in 2004. Miss Norman is currently working on the book for the musical Caraboo and is the book-writer of the Broadway musical The Color Purple.
Miss Norman also won the 1992 Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards for The Secret Garden, for which she wrote book and lyrics. After successful national and international tours, The Secret Garden is becoming a perennial favorite in American theaters, and opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Christmas 2000.
Her first play, Getting Out, premiered at the Actors Theater of Louisville, and subsequently played at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York. It won the John Gassner Medallion, Newsday Oppenheimer Award, and the American Theater Critics Association Citation. For the play’s treatment of epilepsy, Miss Norman received The Epilepsy Institute’s Humanitarian Award.
MARSHA NORMAN, playwright, was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College, her M.A. from the University of Louisville, the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk Awards for ‘Night, Mother. For its treatment of suicide, the play was presented by the Mayo Foundation’s INSIGHT program to audiences of doctors around the country. The play has been translated into 23 languages and has been selected for publication in both British and American college textbooks. A feature film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek was released in August of 1986, for which Miss Norman wrote the screenplay. ‘Night, Mother received a Broadway revival in 2004. Miss Norman is currently working on the book for the musical Caraboo and is the book-writer of the Broadway musical The Color Purple.
Miss Norman also won the 1992 Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards for The Secret Garden, for which she wrote book and lyrics. After successful national and international tours, The Secret Garden is becoming a perennial favorite in American theaters, and opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Christmas 2000.
Her first play, Getting Out, premiered at the Actors Theater of Louisville, and subsequently played at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York. It won the John Gassner Medallion, Newsday Oppenheimer Award, and the American Theater Critics Association Citation. For the play’s treatment of epilepsy, Miss Norman received The Epilepsy Institute’s Humanitarian Award.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
