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Nancy Henderson
96 A
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Synopsis:
A gentle, fearful wife, is sent on trips by her bored husband. But travel has opened up her life, shown her wants of her own, capacity for change, hidden strengths. She finds a lover in Greece. She learns that she can save or destroy her husband, whose career is in jeopardy. In deciding the course of her life, she becomes a challenging and interesting woman.
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Eccentric Circles Theatre, NYC
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Play, full length
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3
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5
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Nancy Henderson
Celebrate America
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Julian Messner, Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
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Nancy Henderson
Feel Free
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Synopsis:
A psychological comedy that studies the human foibles of the human potential move-ment, with compassion for the characters involved. Thatcher, a middle-aged medievalist who fur-tively enjoys sex but cannot love, meets Celeste, a thirty-eight-year-old virgin who is determined to achieve awareness, at a weekend personal growth workshop. The play is about their conflicts and pursuit of the elusive love goal, along with six other people striving for personal growth.
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Gene Frankel Theatre Foundation, NYC
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Psychological Comedy, 2 Acts
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4
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4
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written by Nancy Henderson and Charlotte Kraft
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Nancy Henderson
Hot Pink Blues
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Synopsis:
Verna Claiborne, her husband Aspen, and her cousin Jessamine, have fled New York because Aspen has embezzled their money in his brokerage firm. They escape to a luxurious tropical beach hotel where the unreal atmosphere highlights the hollowness of their lives and the suffering beneath comic facades. Verna longs for love and freedom, meets a man who might be a potential lover/rescuer; he turns out to be a private eye. Impending death from a hurricane startles Verna into awareness, but leaves the others unmoved.
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Black River Playhouse, Chester, NJ
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Play, full length
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Male
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4
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3
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Nancy Henderson
Lo, The Angel
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Univ. of North Carolina
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Nancy Henderson
Medusa Of Forty-Seventh Street
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Old Reliable Theatre Tavern (Off Off Broadway), NY
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French, NY
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Nancy Henderson
Monochrome
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Old Reliable Theatre Tavern (Off Off Broadway), NY
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Nancy Henderson
Speed Bonnie Boat
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Univ. of North Carolina
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(published under author's maiden name, Nancy Wallace): Walter Baker, 100 Summer St., Boston, Mass. 02111
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Nancy Henderson
Walk Together
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; Ralph Bunche and other NYC schools
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Julian Messner, Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
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Five Plays on Human Rights (for children)
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