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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
play by Zindel
- Awards And Honors:
- Pulitzer Prize
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, naturalistic drama in two acts by Paul Zindel, produced at the Alley Theatre in Houston in 1965. It won the Pulitzer Prize when it was published in 1971, one year after its Broadway debut. Largely autobiographical, the play is noted for its sympathetic characterizations. The story centres on Beatrice Hunsdorfer, an impractical, embittered widow living with her two awkward teenage daughters in a ramshackle house where she makes a living by nursing an elderly invalid. Alternately charming and abrasive, Beatrice is generally selfish like her elder daughter, Ruth, who suffers from convulsions ...(100 of 124 words)