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Crimes Of The Heart, Lynn University

Drama Programs

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Place: Hazlehurst, Mississippi

Crimes of the Heart, winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, is a character study of three sisters, each attempting to discover her own identity. They collectively deal with family problems and individual challenges. The bizarre yet believable characters in Henley’s southern dark comedy struggle to deal with despair, loneliness, and failure.

Anatomy Of Gray, Lynn University

Drama Programs

By: Jim Leonard Jr.

Place: Gray, Indiana

Time: 1800s

When June’s father dies in the late 1800s, she prays for a healer to come to the small town of Gray, Indiana. After a tornado passes, a man in a balloon blows into town claiming to be a doctor. At first, the doctor cures anything and everything, but soon the town’s preacher becomes ill with a mysterious plague. This show will be directed by Carbonell Award winner Bruce Linser.

Clybourne Park, Lynn University

Drama Programs

By: Bruce Norris

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act one takes place in 1959, as white community leaders try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.