Laura Harrington, award winning playwright, lyricist and librettist, winner of the 2008 Kleban Award for “most promising librettist in American Musical Theatre,” has written dozens of plays, musicals, operas and radio plays which have been produced in 28 states, Canada and Europe, in venues ranging from Off-Broadway to Houston Grand Opera to the Paris Cinemateque. Harrington has twice won both the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in playwriting and the Clauder Competition for best new play in New England. “Music is in everything I write,” she says, “My ear is smarter than my eye.” She values the joy and creative energy of being a beginner, “knowing too much can be a burden,” so she finds ways to stay curious and in an act of discovery with her writing ~ One of her secrets? She reads everything aloud. Likewise, when she won the Kleban award at the age of fifty, she used it to say STOP! to her twenty-five years of working and collaborating in theatre, and decided to write a novel.
Originally thinking she wanted to be a novelist, she discovered theater, an art form based on her passions of language, literature, words, dance, and music. She loves opening creative doors that terrify her ~ case in point ~ taking a playwriting course in college with the daunting challenge that everyone must read their work aloud! Going through that door changed her life. She chats with Susan about her creative process, the need for beginner’s mind, and her long career as a writer across many genres. Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington is a moving story of family, love and how those left behind carry on.Laura Harrington is an award winning playwright, lyricist, librettist, and most recently a novelist. Read more case, falling for the boy next door – but then they’re told that he’s missing in action and have to face up to the fact that he may never return. She and her mother negotiate his absence as best they can – waiting impatiently for his letters, throwing themselves into school and work respectively, bickering intermittently and, in Alice’s. She also idolizes her father, and when he leaves home to fight a war she doesn’t believe in, Alice is distraught. Not afraid to stand up for the things she believes in. And then some’ Look Alice Bliss is fifteen. ‘This story of friendship, love, grief and growing up will yank on the heartstrings.
Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. A heartbreaking story of love, loss and grief. Description for Life & Times of Alice Bliss Paperback.
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