Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman
Marsha Normanis an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play 'night, Mother. She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as The Secret Garden, for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and The Red Shoes, as well as the libretto for the musical The Color Purple and the book for the musical The Bridges of Madison County...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 September 1947
CountryUnited States of America
I'm just so thankful she's safe. I don't know how anxious she (Mary) is to go back, but I want her to stay for several months.
I tried and tried and tried to call her. It was very emotional for me.
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.
No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.
During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we're asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke ... and take a look.
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Write about the thing that frightens you most.
I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.
I feel that I speak the musical language.
When she called me and I heard her voice, I just went to pieces. The rest of the day, I lost all my strength.
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
This story begins where all great stories start, with loss. 'Hansel and Gretel' begins with the parents are gone, 'Cinderella' and 'Sleeping Beauty,' the mom is dead.