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The 2009-10 Season Crimes of the Heart Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Crimes of the Heart is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters - Lenny, Babe, and Meg - have come together to wait out the last days of their grandfather, the family patriarch, who is dying in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest, is unmarried at thirty and facing up to the prospect of being an old maid; Meg, the middle sister, for whom the little town of Hazlehurst was never big enough, is back after a failed attempt at a singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Why? "'Cause I didn't like his looks, that's all," she explains, "I just didn't like his looks." Rounding out the group of slightly more than off-center characters are the three sisters' cousin Chick, every family's social-climbing worst nightmare; Doc, Meg's one-time boyfriend, whose leg and whose heart were both broken on her account; and Barnett Lloyd, Babe's lawyer, who is trying to keep her out of jail but can't help falling in love with her. Beth Henley's first professionally-produced play, Crimes of the Heart received its world premiere at the Actors Theatre of Louisville then moved to successful productions off-Broadway and on Broadway, and was made into a film in 1986 starring Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard. Tickets: $10 for adults and $7 for students and senior citizens. The play contains mature situations and is not recommended for younger children. For further information,
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