The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher (many of his works focus on science or youth), in 1964, and was the 1971 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Obie, and the New York Drama Critics Award. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre in Houston. [1] It was adapted into a film in 1972 directed by Paul Newman and starring his wife Joanne Woodward and daughter Nell Potts. The play was also conducted Off Broadway.
The play revolves around a dysfunctional family consisting of Beatrice, a single mother and her two daughters, Ruth and Tillie. The play is a lyrical drama reminiscent of Tennessee Williams' style.
There are five characters in this play, including Beatrice, Matilda (Tillie), Ruth, Janice Vickery, and Nanny. Beatrice is a single mother forced to cope with her life, which has gone awry. Tillie is able to keep her life straight by engrossing herself in her pet rabbit and schoolwork. Ruth is a coping adolescent. Janice Vickery is Tillie's main rival in the Science Fair. While Janice Vickery chooses to boil the skin off a cat, Tillie chooses to do the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds. Nanny is Beatrice's board, an old lady who just adds another shadow to Beatrice's life.
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