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Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w
Paul Zindel
Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this powerful and moving study of an embittered, vindictive widow and her two young daughters has been hailed as one of the most significant and affecting plays of the 20th century.
Winner! 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1970 Obie Award, Best American Play Winner! 1970 New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Best American Play
Supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, acid-tongued Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everyone around her. Her older daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions, while her younger girl, Tillie, plain and almost pathologically shy, demonstrates an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie conducts a botanical experiment, winning a prize at her secondary school. Proud but jealous, too filled with her own hurt to accept her daughter's success, Beatrice can only maim when she needs to love and deride when she intends to praise. Yet, as Tillie's experiment proves, something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds premiered off-Broadway at the Mercer Arts Center on 7 April 1970. Directed by Melvin Bernhardt, the production starred Sada Thompson and Pamela Payton-Wright. A film adaptation was released in 1972, directed by Paul Newman, starring his wife Joanne Woodward and daughter Nell Potts. On 9 March 1978, the play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by A. J. Antoon, starring Shelley Winters and Carol Kane.
BEATRICE HUNSDORFER – Tillie’s and Ruth’s mother. Self-loathing, cynical and abusive. TILLIE HUNSDORFER – A quiet and introverted teen, she immerses herself in science. JANICE VICKERY – Tillie’s rival at the science fair. NANNY – An elderly and silent boarder in the Hunsdorfer household. RUTH HUNSDORFER – Tillie’s older sister. A brash but confused adolescent, she suffers from epilepsy.
Beatrice's home in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of a rundown city. 1970.
“A great human drama.” – New York Daily News
“Let's start with a single, simple word. Power… I don't know of a better [play] of its genre since The Glass Menagerie.” – New York Post
“The play itself is one of the lucky blooms; it survives, and is beautiful.” – New York Times
“Off-Broadway has been gifted with a great human drama.” – New York Daily News
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Cygnet Theatre Trailer
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Niagara University Director
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds – Niagara University Preview
Paul Zindel (1936-2003), who drew on memories of his troubled childhood on Staten Island for a prize-winning play with a tongue-twisting title, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, was born on May 15, 1936, in Tottenville, Staten Island. His father was a pol ...
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