Abundance

Not for the faint of heart! Two women are mail order brides & their lives are hard ones shown in brief situations months & years apart. Each scene is wrenching, tearing at another heart string with a clarity that is incredible for the brevity of the piece. I could really see the area they lived in,......more

Those who know Beth Henley from her play (and the subsequent movie) Crimes of the Heart will get something darker with her play Abundance, set in the Old West. I listened to the dramatized version by LA Theatre Works, starring JoBeth William as Macon Hill Curtis and Amy Madigan as Bess Johnson Flann......more

Not impressed. Nicely performed but I don’t think Henley delivered on an interesting premise.......more

The Good: ● What I've always loved about Radio Drama, especially Radio Drama from the '30s to the '70s, was the way amazing screen and stage actors could belie their onscreen and onstage personae to become characters our eyes would never let them be. We've been missing that over the last forty years.......more

A deliberately sweeping timeframe examines the effect of time on all lives as much as focusses on the specific hardships and hopes of the two main characters. Poignant at times, schematic at others, the play succeeds in giving a sense of how tough and perilous life on the frontier could be and how c......more