Steel Magnolias (play)

Steel Magnolias
Written byRobert Harling
Characters
  • Shelby
  • M'Lynn
  • Ouiser
  • Clairee
  • Truvy
  • Annelle
Date premiered1987
Place premieredWPA Theatre
New York City
Original languageEnglish
Genre
SettingTruvy'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]

  1. ^ Hollinger, Karen. In The Company of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films, U of Minnesota Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8166-3177-8, p. 81