| Steel Magnolias | |
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| Written by | Robert Harling |
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| Date premiered | 1987 |
| Place premiered | WPA Theatre New York City |
| Original language | English |
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| Setting | Truvy's Beauty Spot, Northwest Louisiana, Chinquapin Parish |
Steel Magnolias is a stage play by American writer Robert Harling, based on his experience with his sister's death. The play is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana.
The title suggests the "female characters are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel". The magnolia specifically references a magnolia tree they are arguing about at the beginning.[1]
- ^ Hollinger, Karen. In The Company of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films, U of Minnesota Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8166-3177-8, p. 81