The play concerns a travelling circus and its star attraction, Siamese twins.[6] Her next play, 'night, Mother, would turn out to be her best-known work, given its Broadway success and its star-powered film version. 'night, Mother brought Norman a great deal of recognition. The play, dealing frankly with the subject of suicide, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama[7] as well as the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,[8] the Hull-Warriner, and the Drama Desk Award. However, her follow-up play, Traveller in the Dark received scathing reviews from the New York critics, some of whom were as blunt to say she could not have written it.