''Am I Blue'' is a

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Beth Henley Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play '' Crimes of the Heart'' won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and ...

and was written in 1972 and first performed in 1974 at

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. It premiered

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in 1982 at the

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, in a night of plays called ''Confluence''''Am I Blue'' listing
dramatists.com, accessed March 15, 2015 (also featuring ''Confluence'' by

John Bishop John Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter, actor and former semi pro footballer. His first television appearance was in 2007 on the RTÉ topical-comedy show '' The Panel'', where he was a regular panelist until 20 ...

and ''Thymus Vulgaris'' by

Lanford Wilson Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by ''The New York Times'', was "earthy, realist, greatly admired ndwidely performed". Fox, Margalit"Lanford Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwrigh ...

Setting

A bar, the street, the living room of a run down apartment in New Orleans, Fall, 1968

Productions

The play was originally produced in 1974 at

, and starred John Tillotson and Marcie Glaser.Van Duren, Ally
"AM I BLUE: 40 Years Later"
smu.edu, March 26, 2014, accessed March 15, 2015 It was directed by Jill Christine Peters. It premiered Off-Broadway at the

on January 10, 1982. The show was directed by Stuart White,Plunka, Gene
''Am I Blue''
''The Plays of Beth Henley: A Critical Study'', books.google.com, McFarland, 2005, , p. 16 set design by Bob Phillips, costumes by Joan E. Weiss, lighting design by Mal Sturchio, and sound by Chuck London and Stewart Werner. The cast starred

Jeff McCracken Jeff McCracken (born September 12, 1952) is an American actor, director, producer, and artist. Early life and education Born in Chicago, McCracken graduated Evanston Township High School in 1970. He served in the United States Air Force dur ...

(John Polk Richards), June Stein (Ashbe Williams), Pearl Shear (Hilda), Jimmy Ray Weeks (The Barker), Edward Seamon (The Bum), Ellen Conway (The Hippee), and Katherine Cortez (The Whore).

References

External links

Am I Blue at Lortel Archives
1972 plays Off-Broadway plays Plays by Beth Henley Fiction set in 1968 {{1970s-play-stub