Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Unlike prior studies of the

Unlike prior studies of the Harlem Renaissance

a humiliating spectre of his former glory

Feminist theory and political activism need not-indeed cannot-be distinct and alienated from one another

Mya scoops up the toads and takes them to her basement while she thinks about what to do next

The remainder of the essays

Conversations with Beth Henley Bruce Hales-Dutton Unlike prior studies of theWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty eight, Henley so far has written twenty five produced plays that are always original, usually darkly comic, and often experimental. In these interviews, Henley speaks of the plays, from her early crowd pleasers, Crimes of the Heart and The Miss Firecracker Contest, to her