Johnny Bull
| Title | Johnny Bull |
| Year of Publication | 1985 |
| Publication Type | Playscript |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 81 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Yale, Kathleen Betsko |
| Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | addiction; coal industry; Hungarian Americans; labor strikes; Pittsburgh Pirates; steel industry; trade unions; unemployment |
| Abstract | Iris, 18, a war bride from England, emigrates with her 21-year-old American husband to a coal patch along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania. The newlyweds live in the same house with his Hungarian immigrant, coal miner, parents, and young Iris struggles against the ire of her Old World, stern-peasant mother-in-law. |
| Notes | The play opened in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1982. |
| Author Biography | Kathleen Betsko Yale (1939- ) was born in Coventry, England, and emigrated to a coal town in the Monongahela Valley with her Western-Pennsylvania native husband. She is an actor, playwright, and poet. |
| Time | 1959 |
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