Marsha Norman’s first play, Getting Out is based on her time teaching teen criminal offenders at Kentucky’s Central State Hospital. In particular, Norman was influenced by a specific 13-year-old girl who inspired the character of Arlie Horsclaw.
The play had its world premiere at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Kentucky). Following its initial success, it went on to the Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum. In 1979, the play went to Off-Broadway (the Phoenix Theater) and then to Broadway at the Theatre de Lys (now the Lucille Lortel Theatre). Getting Out had its first
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