'Night Mother. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) Paperback – January 1, 1998

Such a great play. A heart wrenching and deeply human story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this play. I watched the film awhile back, and since I wanted to change choose different films for my Film Appreciation class, I decided to review the play before adding 'Night, Mother to my list. What a powerful play. It sheds light on a very difficult subject. Jesse, the main character, makes the decision to "get off the bus early" after careful thought. She shows that some people contemplate this critical experience probably more carefully than buying a house or a car. Her decision is hardly spontaneous or emotional, nothing that I imagined at all. The power of the read helped me to decide to buy the video later on. I also ended up buying a collection of Marsha Norman's other plays, hoping that I will duplicate the insight gained by reading this play.

Came quickly and in fantastic condition

Night Mother by Marsha Norman, the 1983 Pulitzer winning drama is an emotionally draining play. It has only two characters, Jessie Cates, the daughter who lives with her mother, Thelma Cates. These are both simple country women, with Jessie being the quieter and less demonstrative and Thelma being more talkative.Jessie is around 40, epileptic, divorced with a son who is turning into a criminal. She sees her life as lacking in the positive and feels that it will not change. She makes a final decision about what she will do about that and this play is about the night she means to implement her decision.It is short play and takes little time to read, but prepare for the emotion it engenders.

Makes me cry every time!

Came in time with out issue

One of the most powerful plays I have ever seen. I saw it on Broadway in the early 80's starring Kathy Bates. It was an amazing play and I am thrilled to have a copy of the script. Maybe I can even entice someone in our local theater to do a presentation of it. Would be bliss.

Obviously, a classic is a classic for a reason. This heartbreaking tale sets up a premise that we all know the inevitable outcome too, but like Momma, we fight to make sure it doesn't happen. A brilliant play, a must-read.

I think this is one of the greatest plays ever written. Marsha Norman tells a seemingly simple story that gets more and more complex as it goes on. She also has such an understanding of the depth of the mother/daughter relationship, and in this particular one, the characters switch rolls and the daughter becomes more motherly and the mother more child-like. It's also got such a huge thriller element because the audience knows the tragedy is imminent and is sitting on the edge of their seats throughout the entire play. Definitely a perfectly crafted piece of theatre.

' 'Night Mother' is a very powerful piece of theatre: the dialogue is superb, the two characters are deeply engaging, and the whole play has been shaped masterfully.

perfect

Short and sweet. A very powerful piece of writing.