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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS   (1911 - 1983)


Tennessee Williams
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Plays by Tennessee Williams

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
27 Wagons Full Of Cotton
1st Produced:
Dixon Hall; Tulane University, New Orleans
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. The superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Adam and Eve on a Ferry
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Here, Tennessee Williams gives a comic portrait of D.H. Lawrence as someone who functions as an analyst for repressed women. As he sits embroidering on the porch of his villa, Lawrence is visited by Miss Ariadne Peabody. Adopting a Sherlock-Holmesian intuition, Lawrence divines that spinsterish Miss Peabody met a man aboard a ferry, he propositioned her, but in her passionate excitement she forgot his name and where they were to meet. Happily, Lawrence helps Miss Peabody recover her memory.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
American Blues
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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Genre:
short plays collection
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
MOONY'S KID DON'T CRY. A short play about a worker, his wife and child. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE DARK ROOM. A tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker. (1 man, 2 women.) THE CASE OF THE CRUSHED PETUNIAS. A delightful, humorous playlet. (2 men, 2 women.) TEN BLOCKS ON THE CAMINO REAL. A lyrical fantasy. (13 men, 3 women, 10 dancers, flexible casting) THE LONG STAY CUT SHORT, OR, THE UNSATISFACTORY SUPPER. A moving sketch about an old servant. (1 man, 2 women.)
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Candy Delaney is a successful New Orleans interior decorator and landlord who is also a drag queen approaching "her" ~ birthday. On the rebound from a seventeen-year relationship, Candy has picked up a rough, vicious sailor, Karl, on whom she lavishes money. On the day of the dreaded birthday, Karl walks out and it's left to the two queens who live upstairs, Alvin and Jerry, to comfort Candy.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
At Liberty
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Scenes, ed William Kozlenko, Day, NY, 1941
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Drama about a trapped, frustrated Mississippi actress dying of consumption
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Auto-Da-Fe
1st Produced:
New York
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A young postal worker struggles with his sexual repression. His frustration ends in an attack on a female boarder in the cottage and the eventual burning of the cottage, his mother, and the female boarder.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Baby Doll
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ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Battle Of Angels
1st Produced:
Wilbur Theater. Boston, Mass
1940
Company:
-
1st Published:
Pharos-New Directions, Murray, Utah, 1945
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
11
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
revised as Orpheus Descending (produced 1957)
Synopsis:
As in its later, and substantially rewritten version (entitled Orpheus Descending) the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. Taking a job in a store his smouldering animal magnetism draws out the latent sexual passion in the love starved store keeper, whilst her husband lies dying upstairs. A sense of inevitable tragedy grows and there is a denouement of overwhelming and chilling intensity.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Beauty is the Word
1st Produced:
The University of Missouri at Columbia
1930
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play concerns the life of a South Pacific missionary, his wife, their servant and the wife's niece and her husband.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Big Game, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Tony, a vigorous young footballer, is about to be discharged from the men's ward. In contrast, the other two occupants are a terminally ill youth, Dave, and Walton, a middle-aged patient about to undergo surgery for a brain tumour. When Tony leaves, Walton introduces Dave to the concept of eternity by looking at the stars. Walton dies during the operation and the play ends with Dave, alone, contemplating the stars.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cairo! Shangai! Bombay!
1st Produced:
Rose Arbor Playhouse; Memphis, Tennessee
1935
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The manuscript is not published, and the short descriptions allude the possibility of two female prostitutes, but it is not clear if the sailors ever meet them.
Synopsis:
The first of William's plays to be academically produced. Two sailors look for two prostitutes while on shore leave.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Camino Real
1st Produced:
New York
1953
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, 1953
ISBN
978-0811218061
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Genre:
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Fantasy
Parts:
Male
26
Female
10
Parts Other:
extras, doubling possible
Notes:
revised version of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Camino Real
In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real (pronounciation: Cá-mino Réal) is a long highway, a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, a nightmare, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literatureDon Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byroninhabit a place where corruption, starvation, indifference and greed have immobilized anyone who tries to escape. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrivesa sailor and all-American guy with "a heart as big as the head of baby." Like others before him in the Camino Real, Kilroy is robbed, conned, turned into a patsy, and he very nearly breaks...but not quite. When this experimental epic opened on Broadway in 1953, it confounded the critics, but not the audiences. The play's iconic/ironic humor, playful conceits, and towering concerns about society's demand for conformity, the courage of the artist, and the power of compassion have made it a classic.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Candles to the Sun
1st Produced:
Wednesday Club Auditorium. St. Louis, MO
1937
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions Publishing Corporation (August 30, 2004)
ISBN
978-0811215749
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Genre:
10 scenes
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
11
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Williams has a nervous breakdown after working at the International Shoe Company in St. Louis. He recovers in Clarksedale, Mississippi at his maternal grandparents' home and writes Candles, which he submits to the Dramatists Guild Contest in New York. He attends the University of Washington where he befriends a group of student and poets and finds himself highly influenced by the poetry of Hart Crane.
Candles to the Sun
The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams to be produced, Candles to the Sun was premiered by The Mummers, a semi-professional and socially aware theatre troupe in St. Louis on March 18, 1937, and received rave reviews in the local press. Set in the Red Hills coal mining section of Alabama and dealing with both the attempts of the miners to unionize and the bleak lives of their families, the play, according to St. Louis Star-Times critic Reed Hynds, is "an earnest and searching examination of a particular social reality set out in human and dramatic terms."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Case Of the Crushed Petunias, The
1st Produced:
Cleveland
1957
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Blues: Five Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Delightful, humorous comedy-fantasy
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
1st Produced:
The Morosco Theatre. New York City
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1955
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
4c
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddys daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that shes finally become pregnant by Big Daddys favorite son, Brick, but Brick wont cooperate in Maggies plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evenings end, Maggies ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Bricks love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggies loving arms
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cavalier for Milady
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Chalky White Substance
1st Produced:
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Company:
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ISBN
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Sc-fi post nuclear war and will your boyfriend sell you out to the authorities - if the price is right? Yes.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Circus, The
1st Produced:
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by Gerald Schoenwolf and Tenessee Williams
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Clothes For A Summer Hotel
1st Produced:
Washington, D. C.
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Ghost Play
-
Parts:
Male
13
Female
14
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play begins outside the North Carolina asylum where Zelda Fitzgerald is receiving treatment for her mental disorder. She is visited by her husband, Scott, now reduced to hack writing in Hollywood and trying desperately to control his drinking. Their meeting is deeply disturbing for them both, and as Scott realizes that Zelda will never recover, the action shifts to a series of flashbacks which illuminate the causes of their sad plight. We see them in younger, happier, but inescapably destructive daysshe in a tempestuous affair with a young French aviator; he matching wits with an acerbic Ernest Hemingway. And, throughout, the drinking, the wild extravagance, and the steady erosion of talent and potential. In the end we are back at the hospital, sure of what must come, but moved by the memory of what once was
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Confessional
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Company:
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-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Creve Coeur
1st Produced:
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
2 scenes
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Creve Coeur is the title of work as presented at Spoleto Festival. Title changed to A Lovely Sunday for a Creve Coeur for NY production
Synopsis:
Four very different women cross paths on a Sunday morning. Dorothea is thinking of moving out of the apt that she shares with Bodey so she can better entertain her lover the principal at the school she teaches at. When she discovers he is engaged to another woman, she decides to stay with Bodey.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Dark Room, The
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Blues: Five Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Tragic sketch about an Italian woman and a welfare worker
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Day on Which a Man Dies, The (An Occidental Noh Play)
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Demolition Downtown: Count Ten In Arabic - Then Run
1st Produced:
Carnaby Street Theatre, London
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams VI", New Directions, New York, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The play was produced along with The Lady of Larkspur Lotion
Synopsis:
Two families attempt to cope with life in a post-revolutionary America
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Eccentricities Of A Nightingale, The
1st Produced:
Nyack, NY
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1965
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
revised version of Summer and Smoke
Synopsis:
The action takes place in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, shortly before the First World War. Alma Winemiller, a sensitive and lonely young woman, has become increasingly restive and disturbed by the fear that she will remain a spinster. Hemmed in by her stern minister father, and her deranged mother, she makes a final, and almost desperate attempt to win the man of her choicea young doctor whose social-climbing mother frowns on his attachment to Alma. The play centers on the complex relationship between these two; her touching attempts to sway his emotions; and his uncertainty as to where his heart should lead him. In the end there is to be only one truly beautiful moment between themfor neither can break the ties of family and position which draw them apart and which, inevitably, defeat Alma's hopes for a new and fuller life.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Enemy, The: Time
1st Produced:
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in Theatre, NY, 1959
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Escape
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three prisoners in a bunk-house play cards and listen while their ceilmate makes a run to the railtracks with guards and dogs in hot pursuit. Finally, they hear gunshots but when they see the guards return with a body they believe Billy's free at last.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Fat Man's Wife, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
It's New Year's morning 1938. Vera and her husband Joe, an influential theatre producer, are returning from a party, at which a young playwright, Dennis Merriwether, has paid great court to Vera. Rather than compromise his art, Dennis has decided to quit New York for Acapulco and wants Vera to accompany him. But Vera sends him away; she is, after all, the fat man's wife.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Frosted Glass Coffin, The
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The setting is the street facade of a low-priced Miami hotel of the sort which caters to aged pensioners. It is morning and the old men at the Ponce de Leon Hotel gather to watch the daily line-up of oldsters at the cut-rate restaurant across the street, chuckling at the thought of the consternation that will result when the doors open and the waiting customers discover that prices have been raised. But then a sad note is struckone of their fellow guests has passed on, leaving a blind and helpless husband. But it is a loss that none will face squarely, for the nearness of death is what all of them must live with and joke about. For are they not all living in frosted glass coffins, through which light, and life, can just barely be perceived?
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Fugitive Kind
1st Produced:
St Louis
1937
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Garden District
1st Produced:
New York
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1958
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
includes Something Unspoken, Suddenly Last Summer
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Glass Menagerie, The
1st Produced:
Civic Theatre. Chicago, IL
1944
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, NY, 1945
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the unrealistic world of the movies. Laura also lives in her own illusions. She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Gnadiges Fraulein, The
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Tragi Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As outlined in Variety: "THE GNADIGES FRAULEIN (translatable as 'The Gracious Lady') is the justification of the word 'Slapstick' in the overall title. It's a far-out tragic-comedy in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd, with a touch of the Theatre of Cruelty. It's quite funny at times, though basically and finally sad. The scene is a rickety bunkhouse, for 'permanent transients' in a place called Cocaloony Key, obviously off the southern tip of Florida. The characters include a kooky society gossip columnist, the frowsy crone who runs the place, a demented former Viennese vaudevillian, a Cocaloony bird (evidently a local name for a pelican) and a tomahawk-brandishing, war-whooping, blond-wigged Indian." The interplay of these characters, antic in both appearance and behavior, forms the heart and meaning of the play. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, it becomes both fascinating and deeply affecting as the underlying humanity of each "grotesque" is made real through what they are, and do, and what happens to them.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Green Eyes
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ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Headlines
1st Produced:
Wednesday Club Auditorium by The Mummers (an amateur theatre group in St. Louis, Mo.)
1936
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-
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-
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Genre:
-
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Plea for pacificism, prepared as a curtain raiser for Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead." Four short black-out bits. One involves an Armitise Day speech by a local senator, a send-up of a legendary politician and two short skits about local school and social life.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Hello From Bertha
1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent, UK
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
PBS TV February 6, 1961
Synopsis:
A prostitute suffers schitzoid dillusions while grasping on to her past loves. She is stricken with "acquired" diseases.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Hot Milk At Three In the Morning
1st Produced:
University of Missouri
1932
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-
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-
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-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 infant
Notes:
This work was adapted to become Moony's Kid Don't Cry.
Synopsis:
"A man who formerly worked in the forests and now holds a monotonous job rebels against the added burdens of a new baby and a nagging wife. . .He accuses his wife of forcing him into marriage and is about to walk out on her when she shoves the sick baby into his arms. . .His rebellion is forgotten" Williams, Edwina Dakin. Remember Me To Tom
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
House Not Meant To Stand
1st Produced:
New York
1981
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-
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-
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-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Nov. 8-23, 1980. One-act 'workshop version,' titled "Some Problems for the Moose Lodge." Performed as one of three one-act plays comprising the program "Tennessee Laughs." Goodman's Studio Theatre. Chicago. Directed by Gary Tucker. With Les Podewell as Cornelius, Marji Bank as Bella, Scott Jaeck as Charlie, and Rachel Stephens as Jessie.
Synopsis:
Semi-autobiographical drama about the physical and emotional decline of a married Mississippi couple.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I Can't Imagine Tomorrow
1st Produced:
Bar Harbor, ME
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Dragon Country", New Directions, New York, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
televised 1970
Synopsis:
There are only two characters, a man and a woman. She is ill, perhaps mortally so, and living alone in her dark house. The man, her only friend and equally solitary, dreads returning to the airless hotel room that has become his home. He tries to reach out to her, to help her, but it is too difficult, perhaps too late, for her to respond. Their confrontation, sometimes gentle, sometimes tense, becomes a revealing and moving emotional experience as they accept the need to face alone the terrors that might be more easily met together
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
I Rise In Flame, Cried The Phoenix
1st Produced:
New York
1953
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1951
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The author refers to his work as "imaginary." The basic facts, however, are well known. There are three characters, Lawrence himself, Frieda and Bertha Brett, and the scene is a sunporch at a small retreat in the Alpes Maritimes. We see Lawrence at the very end of his career, in fact the very day he dies, and recognize him as the erratic, inspired, ill-tempered genius who was never able to come to terms with life. Yet he stands revealed here as the man who, in Mr. Williams' words, "& felt the mystery and power of sex, as the primal life urge, and was the life-long adversary of those who wanted to keep the subject locked away in the cellars of prudery."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
In The Bar Of A Tokyo Hotel
1st Produced:
Eastside Playhouse. New York City
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As Clive Barnes outlines: "Superficially the play is about the painterfamous, rich and lostand his wife, who find themselves in a Tokyo hotel. The wife, wildly promiscuous, tries to seduce the Japanese barman in the hotel bar. The artist is in his room, naked on a canvas with a spray-gun, trying to develop a new technique, almost confident that he has invented color. Almost confident, but not quite, for he lacks confidence the way an anemic man lacks blood. The artist, in the final stages of some spiritual or physical dissolution, at last joins his wife in the bar. But she has sent to Manhattan for his picture dealer and friend. She then goes out, presumably to find a man. A few days later the dealer arrives in Tokyo. The wife, determined to be free, tries to persuade the friend to take the artist back to New York, under sedation if necessary. But the artist foils her plans by dying. Suddenly, with the bleakness of loss, she finds that she too has nowhere to go."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Kingdom Of Earth: The Seven Descents Of Myrtle
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Esquire", New York, February, 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama, 2 acts
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
Chicken, Lot and Myrtle
Notes:
Produced in New York as The Seven Descents of Myrtle
Synopsis:
Lot is a weak and ailing youth who suffers from an attachment to the memory of his late mother. He has come to his ancestral home, a derelict house on the edge of a soon to be flooded river, with his new bride, Myrtle, a television actress. Somewhat reminiscent of Blanche Dubois from Williams's classic play A Streetcar Named Desire, Myrtle is a luckless young woman trapped in a world of romantic illusions, one of which is to nurse Lot back to health so they can consummate their marriage. Myrtle soon discovers, however, that Lot only wants to use her to steal the deed to the property from his embittered half-brother, Chicken, a Stanley Kowalski type, brimming with masculinity and assertiveness&and a few romantic plans of his own.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Kirche, Kitchen, und Kinder
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Outrage For The Stage
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Lady Of Larkspur Lotion, The
1st Produced:
New York
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketch
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Powerful sketch about derelicts
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Last Of My Solid Gold Watches
1st Produced:
Laboratory Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A character cketch about a salesman
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Lifeboat Drill
1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York, NY)
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams VII", New Directions, New York, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A married couple, in their nineties, are aboard a cruise ship. Their difficulties with life preservers, and basically life in general, are explored.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Long Goodbye, The
1st Produced:
New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
1940
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Dream play set in a mid-western American city about a man's memories of his fallen sister
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Long Stay Cut Short, The; or, The Unsatisfactory Supper
1st Produced:
London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Blues: Five Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Moving sketch about an old servant
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Lord Byron's Love Letter
1st Produced:
New York
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A romantic story involving the poet
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Lovely Sunday For Creve Couer, A
1st Produced:
Spoleto Festival (Charleston, South Carolina)
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1980
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The time is 1935, the place St. Louis, where Dorothea, a youngish high school teacher, rooms with Bodey, a plain but kind-hearted German-American spinster. Hopelessly romantic, Dorothea dreams of marriage with her sometime beau, the principal of the school, and Bodey, in an attempt to spare her feelings, hides the morning newspaper, which carries a notice of the principal's engagement to another. Bodey also hopes to make a match between Dorothea and her fat, cigar-smoking brother, and tries to persuade Dorothea to join them for a picnic at Creve Coeur, a nearby amusement park. Their departure is delayed by the arrival of Helena, a snobbish, tart-tongued art teacher, who wants Dorothea to share an apartment with her in a better part of town. Inevitably, a struggle evolves between Bodey and Helena, with Dorothea, lost in her dream world, caught between them. In the end reality shatters Dorothea's fond hopes, and brings her rudely back to earthbut not without clear evidence that, somehow, she will find the strength to recover and go on.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Magic Tower, The
1st Produced:
St Louis
1936
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Me, Vashya!
1st Produced:
-
1937
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The
1st Produced:
Spoleto, Italy
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1964
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy about death
-
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As George Oppenheimer describes "We first encounter Mrs. Goforth in one of her three villas on the southern coast of Italy frantically endeavoring to complete her memoirs before her death. However, there is still life in the old girl as she bullies her attractive female secretary, spits venom at a visitor whom she dubs "the witch of Capri," makes propositions to a handsome young itinerant poet over half her age, and dictates night and day, either to the secretary or to any number of tape recorders scattered about the premises, her vapid and ridiculous memories which she believes will form an important social commentary& To the triple homes of Mrs. Goforth comes Chris Flanders, the young poet, who because of his past presence in the company of so many elderly women at the time of their deaths has won the mocking nickname of "the angel of death." At first we take him to be, as does Mrs. Goforth, a hustler who is willing to sell his poems, his mobiles, or his body to susceptible and lonely ancients. To Mrs. Goforth, who has lived a full and promiscuous life and is in mortal fear of relinquishing it, Chris comes as an answer to a carnal prayer, a last fling before she is forced to face ultimate loneliness. Then she discovers that he is unwilling to give in to her seductions at any price, that his is a spiritual nature which seeks only to allay her fears and soothe her pain. Until almost the very end she refuses to believe in his virtue. Her life has been so hedged in viciousness that she cannot accept readily anything but venality."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Mister Paradise
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A wealthy, eager college girl makes a surprise visit to the eponymous Mister Paradise in his squalid New Orleans surroundings. Having discovered a book of his poetry written 15 years earlier, she is determined to make him famous. Horrified, he explains that "Gabriel has not yet blown the horn" and that Anthony Paradise, his pen-name, will only be famous when Jonathan Jones is dead. They part, he telling her to watch the obituaries, she promising that his future is safe in her hands.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Moony's Kid Don't Cry
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1946
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Blues: Five Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 infant
Notes:
Hotmilk at Three in the Morning is so similar to Moony's Kid Don't Cry that they are often refered to as the same work
Synopsis:
"A man who formerly worked in the forests and now holds a monotonous job rebels against the added burdens of a new baby and a nagging wife. . .He accuses his wife of forcing him into marriage and is about to walk out on her when she shoves the sick baby into his arms. . .His rebellion is forgotten" Williams, Edwina Dakin. Remember Me To Tom
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Municipal Abattoir, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In a Spanish-speaking dictatorship, a clerk, who has been condemned to death, asks a student the way to the Municipal Abattoir. The student tells him to save himself but the clerk says he can't because he's been a Municipal Employee too long to disobey. The student changes tack and orders the clerk to take his gun and shoot the general as his motorcade passes by. But the clerk is too cowed and finally asks the audience the way to the abattoir.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Mutilated, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
9
Female
4
Parts Other:
chorus
Notes:
Produced on Broadway as a double bill with THE GNADIGES FRAULEIN under the omnibus title of SLAPSTICK TRAGEDY. A haunting, compassionate study of the lonely and maimed of this world, and the painful adjustments which they must make in reconciling themselv
Synopsis:
As described in Variety: "is about a pair of alternately friendly and quarrelsome floozies in a fleabag hotel in the French quarter of New Orleans in the 1930s. Margaret Leighton plays the one who has inherited an income just sufficient to give her pretensions and keep her supplied with wine. Kate Reid plays a raucous hag just out of jail on a shoplifting charge. The would-be genteel lady is morbidly sensitive about being physically mutilated, having had a breast removed. Her harpy companion, Williams seems to be saying, is spiritually deformed, having suffered the cruelty of fellow humans. The implication is that all of us are maimed in some form or other. The play is written as a sort of Christmas parable, with a chorus of incidental characters singing hymns resembling carols. To project the idea further, the final scene presents the embattled cronies reunited in friendship and happiness, believing the Virgin has entered the room. Perhaps the moral is that love conquers mutilation."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Night Of The Iguana, The
1st Produced:
Spoleto, Italy
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1962
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
John McClain's outline of "Within the brokendown environs of a cheap Mexican resort hotel [Williams] has created a mood of pervading loneliness and despair as intrusive as the Equinoxial storm that stirs sudden lightning flashes and gushes through the tattered room. The desolation, the emptiness are in his people: the tough, sex-starved widow who runs the hotel; the neurotic, defrocked minister, and the gentle maiden lady from New England. Thrown together in this squalid setting their human needs become explicit, and from their conflicts comes the realization that life must be endured, and that the spirit will somehow survive even beyond the limits of anguish. Mr. Williams veers off in many philosophic directions in this searing pastorale, but he is chiefly concerned with the relationship of the Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon and Miss Hannah Jelkes, the sad, fortyish lady who travels the world with her grandfather ('the oldest practicing poet in the world'), painting quick portraits, for a fee, while the nonagenarian recites poetry to hotel guests. Rev. Shannon, having been relieved of his cloth for sexual irregularities, has landed at the Costa Verde hotel, near Acapulco, on the verge of one of his periodic mental breakdowns. The proprietress, an old friend, is prepared to offer him a bed and will, in fact, share it with him if he wishes. But then Miss Jelkes and her grandpa arrive, penniless but prepared to offer their services to the guests in return for lodging. There is a strange and immediate rapport between the discredited cleric and the lonely artist. The play's most poignant momentsscenes of enormous compassiongrow out of the understanding of these two people, their mutual need for companionship and roots, their final moments of nobility in small gestures of unselfishness to aid one another."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Not About Nightingales
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Originally 1-act. Revised.20 episodes
-
Parts:
Male
22
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Royal National Theatre, London, March 5-April 30, 1998. Alley Theatre, Houston, TX June 10-July3,1998
Synopsis:
Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story the play follows the events of a prison scandal which shocked America when convicts leading a hunger strike were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams later said: "I have never written anything since that could compete with its violence and horror." Its sympathetic treatment of a Black character and of a transvestite might have kept the play suppressed and unproduced during its own time. But its flashes of lyricism and compelling dialogue presage the great plays Williams was yet to write.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Notebook Of Trigorin, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1997
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov ( The Sea Gull)
Synopsis:
On his Uncle Sorin's lakeside estate, Constantine's new play premieres to disdainful reactions from the family and friends who have gathered: Masha; her future husband Medvedenko; Dorn, a lecherous doctor; Shamrayev, manager of the estate; and his wife Polina. Constantine's mother, the famous actress Madame Arkadina (and prima donna), is not one to suppress her true feelings on her son's contribution to the theatre: She abhors it. Humiliated, Constantine sulks over his life, his art, and dotes on the play's star, the woman he loves, Nina, who is infatuated with Madame Arkadina's companion, the established writer Boris Trigorin. Since Trigorin is the object of affection for Nina, as well as Madame Arkadina, he becomes the object of scorn and jealousy for Constantine. In an attempt to explain his brooding, morbid nature, Constantine presents Nina with a dead seagull, which he has just shota sacrificial symbol of events to come. Before the evening is over the characters' dreams, infidelities, and self-deceptions will be revealed: Nina's reluctance to love Constantine; Trigorin's lust for Nina; Masha's love for Constantine and boredom with her new husband; Dorn's insecurities on his aging appearance and his affair with Polina; and Sorin's constant pleadings with his sister Arkadina to accept and encourage his nephew, her son. Two summers later finds Constantine the successful writer; Masha, a drunk, lamenting her love for Constantine; Madame Arkadina, haggard and struggling to hold onto Trigorin; and Nina, returning to the lake after her failed acting career and rueful involvement with Trigorin, seeking sympathy and understanding from the disturbed Constantine, who still loves her enough to take his own life.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Now The Cat With Jeweled Claws
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2 scenes
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Written 1981. A luncheon table at the window of a restaurant. Outside the window, there is a deserted street, with the marquee of a cinema visible. The feature playing at the cinema is Defiance of Decency, which is followed by four stars.
Synopsis:
Conversations in a restaurant between two women friends, two male (homosexual) lovers, and the homosexual male manager
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
One Arm
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1962
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Male
-
Female
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-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
One Exception, The
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ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
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Notes:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Orpheus Descending
1st Produced:
Matin Beck Theater. New York, NY
1957
Company:
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1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1958
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-
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
10
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Orpheus Descending is known in other forms as Battle of Angels and as The Fugitive Kind
Synopsis:
As the New York Times describes, the play tells "&of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his lovenot in Hades, precisely, but amid the intrigue, gossip and violence of a hot-tempered town&ORPHEUS DESCENDING is one of Mr. Williams' pleasant plays, with characters determined to free themselves from corruption, with some sensitive philosophical comments in passing about the loneliness of the human being condemned in his world to solitary confinement for the whole of his life. Mr. Williams is in a more humane state of mind than he has been in several years&The introduction of the musical vagabond to the friendless woman who keeps the store, their humorous talk, their serious talk, the simplicity of their liaison after they have come to know each otherall this Mr. Williams has written in his best style of mood, lyricism and tenderness."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Out Cry
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Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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-
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Genre:
Drama, full length
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Subsequently revised and available under the title THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY. NOTE: The author prefers that the version entitled THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY be presented by nonprofessional groups, though applications to produce OUT CRY will also be considered.
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Palooka, The
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-
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play
One Act
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Male
4
Female
-
Parts Other:
flexible
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The Palooka is a spent boxer. Next to him on the bench awaiting his first professional fight is a starry-eyed youngster who hopes to make it big like his hero, former champion Galveston Joe. The Kid supposes that Joe retired wealthy and glorious, and the Palooka wistfully agrees. But as the Palooka walks out lifelessly to get slaughtered again, the Trainer gives the brutal truth: old timers in the crowd still recognize the has-been - despite changing his name from Galveston Joe
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Parade, The
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Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
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Notes:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot, A
1st Produced:
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1958
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-
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Genre:
Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
2 non-speaking walk-on men
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A delightful scene about two fading, overdressed doxies, members of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the "Sons of Mars," who hit town for the annual convention. But, in their search for "boys" and a "high old time," they wind up separated from their party, in a third rate bar, drinking beer and trying hard to be cheerful. Each is soon finding fault with the other, and they are resigned to a miserable time when the door bursts open, and a pair of "Sons of Mars," in all their blue-and-white glory, leap-frog in to save these damsels-in-distress.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Period of Adjustment
1st Produced:
Miami
1959
Company:
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1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1960
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-
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Genre:
SerioComedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As described in the NY Times: "Mr. Williams is telling the story of two marriages at points of acute crisis. One couple has just broken up after five years together. The other has not been able to come to terms in one day of wedlock. Both couples are living through a period of adjustment. The phrase is tinged with irony. The play examines the sources of the crisis. Ralph Bates, a former war hero, has in-law trouble. George Haverstick, a war buddy who unexpectedly visits him on Christmas Eve with his bride of a day, has the shakes; his difficulty seems to be a fear of impotence. The end is happy, as comedy requires. The four go to bedin the right combinations." In calling his play a "serious comedy," Mr. Williams puts his finger on its most unique aspect, for this is a work which combines a humorous viewpoint with deep-seated concern for a very real, human situation.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Pink Bedroom, The
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1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
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-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The Woman berates her tedious, negligent lover whom she knows has two-timed her. As the quarrel reaches a crescendo, she turns him out and slams the door on him. Then she calls to his replacement, a younger man, who's waiting in the other room
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Portrait Of A Madonna
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1946
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketch
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A sketch of a demented spinster
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Pronoun "I", The
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Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Purification, The
1st Produced:
Dallas, TX
1954
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
9
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Poetic drama in New Mexico
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Red Devil Battery Sign, The
1st Produced:
Schubert Theatre Boston, Massachusetts
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
2 act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
18
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The action of the play begins in the cocktail lounge of a slightly seedy Dallas hotel, where the rebellious wife of a powerful and corrupt industrialist (known only as the "Downtown Woman"), having been subjected to violent electro-shock treatments and disabling drugs, is being virtually held prisoner. When she encounters King Del Rey, once the leader of a successful mariachi band, until he was disabled by a brain tumor, the Woman senses that he is both a kindred spirit and, perhaps, the means by which she can free herself at last. Their attraction is immediate and tempestuous but King, demeaned by the fact that his present condition makes him his hard-working wife's "invalid dependent," holds back from total commitment. As their stories unfold we learn that the Woman, daughter of a crooked Texas politician and wife of the grasping president of the Red Devil Battery Company (which symbolizes the dehumanizing power of the military-industrial complex) has knowledge of a right-wing plot to assume national power; and that King still clings to the hope that his health will be restored and he will again join forces with his talented daughter, a gifted singer known as La Nina. But it soon becomes apparent that time has run out for both of them; the forces which seek to hold the Woman in bondage are too powerful to foil; and La Nina, who has become the paramour of a gun-toting Chicago hoodlum, is aware that her father is a doomed man. In the stirring, theatrically explosive conclusion of the play, King, after a final but futile attempt to save the Woman, falls dead from a massive stroke, while she is seized by a marauding band of homeless youths who have been poised at the outskirts of the city, and carried off as their leader's prizeand to the nightmare-desolation of a decadent civilization in the throes of self-destruction.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde, The
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ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Rose Tattoo, The
1st Produced:
New York
1951
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1951
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
14
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Winner of the 1951 Tony Award for Best Play. One of the author's most beautiful and powerful plays. Set among a colony of Sicilian fisherfolk on the American Gulf Coast, it is the story of a woman for whom love was stronger than death
Synopsis:
Serafina delle Rose is a restless widow whose intense and absorbing instinct for love drives everything before it. The figure of this extraordinary woman dominates the small town where she and her friends are living and embodies the exultation and danger of unbridled passion. Her story, and that of the lover she chooses and the daughter she denies, are forged into a play of power, humanity and soaring emotion.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Seagull, The
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Seven Descents of Myrtle, The
1st Produced:
New York
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ISBN
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Genre:
2 acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
Chicken, Lot and Myrtle
Notes:
aka Kingdom Of Earth
Synopsis:
A dying man, Lot, brings his new former showbiz wife to his childhood home where his half brother still lives. His brother, Chicken, begins to psychologically torture his sister-in-law, scaring her with the prospect of drowing in the impending flood, because he suspects the marraige is a scam to prevent him from getting the house when his brother dies. While she suffers Lot goes insane, dressing in his mother's clothes and a wig and disapears into the parlor never to be heard from again.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Slapstick Tragedy
1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre. New York City
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, New York (2 vols.), 1967
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Double Bill
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
includes The Mutilated (9m 4f) and Gnadiges Fr!ulein, The (3m 3f) (aka The Latter Days Of a Celebrated Soubrette)
Synopsis:
Viscious scavenger birds repeatedly attack an ex-vaudeville singer as she attempts to gather fish for her supper. The implication of the two plays is that all of us suffer in one way or another
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Small Craft Warnings
1st Produced:
New York
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1972
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The scene is a rundown bar on the Southern California coast, where a group of lonely and disparate individuals, rejected by "normal" society, come together in their need for human contact and understanding. One by one each tells his tale with poetic eloquence and force, revealing the desperate emptiness of his existence, and inspiring a moving compassion of rare dimension. In the final essence, the characters become embodiments of the fears that lurk in all of us, and the frailties that so often make us less than we would wish to beboth in our hearts and in the eyes of others.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Something Cloudy, Something Clear
1st Produced:
-
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
-
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-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The scene is a beach shack on Cape Cod, during the summer of 1940, where August, a fledgling playwright, is rewriting the play intended for his Broadway debut. He is distracted by his infatuation for Kip, a handsome Canadian dancer and draft dodger, who is visiting with a wealthy and protective young girl named Clare, reputedly his sister. When Clare, who is not all she claims to be, goes off with a gangster friend, August takes advantage of her absence to lay suit to the sexually ambivalent Kip. But while he wins his case, there is as much pain as pleasure in their liaison, as Kip proves to be both terminally ill and unable to reciprocate August's obsessive passion. And, as a counter theme, August must also negotiate with the fawning, penny-pinching producers, whose crass commercialism he turns aside with a fierce defense of his artistic integrity. In the end we know that his play, like his sexual compulsion, will come to griefbut we are also aware that the artist, and the vision he must pursue, will remain undaunted and undiminished despite all the obstacles and frustrations that surely lie ahead.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Something Unspoken
1st Produced:
New York
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY (revised), 1953
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketch
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Character sketch in which two characters are developed with remarkable insight. A play with an underlying current of irony and horror.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Spring Storm
1st Produced:
Iowa City
1938
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Stairs To The Roof
1st Produced:
Pasadena Playhouse. Pasadena, CA
1945
Company:
-
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-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
17
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Based on Williams's experience as an employee of the International Shoe Company, Stairs details the emotional and mental suffocation of factory work.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Steps Must Be Gentle
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Strangest Kind Of Romance, The
1st Produced:
Theatre de Champs Elysees (Paris, France)
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Sketch
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
1 cat
Notes:
This play grew out of Williams' short story, The Malediction
Synopsis:
A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Streetcar Named Desire, A
1st Produced:
Barrymore Theatre. New York City
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1947
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
6
Parts Other:
3 or 4 minor roles
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to rejectso far as possiblethe realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Suddenly Last Summer
1st Produced:
York Theater, New York, NY
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London,
ISBN
-
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-
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Presented Off-Broadway with Something Unspoken under the collective title Garden District
Synopsis:
Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem trueor at least curiously and suspensefully possibleby the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror. Anne Meacham, as a girl who has been the sole witness to her cousin's unbelievably shocking death, is brought into a 'planned jungle' of a New Orleans garden to confront a family that is intensely interested in having her deny the lurid tale she has told. The post-dilettante's mother is, indeed, so ruthlessly eager to suppress the facts that she had the girl incarcerated in a mental institution and she is perfectly willing, once she finishes her ritualistic five o'clock frozen daiquiri, to order the performance of a frontal lobotomy. A nun stands in rigid attendance; a doctor prepares a hypodermic to force the truth; greedy relatives beg her to recant in return for solid cash. Under the assorted, and thoroughly fascinating, pressures that are brought to bear, and under the intolerable, stammering strain of reliving her own memories, Miss Meacham slowly, painfully, hypnotically paints a concrete and blistering portrait of loneliness&of the sudden snapping of that spider's web that is one man's life, of ultimate panic and futile flight. The very reluctance with which the grim, hopeless narrative is unfolded binds us to it; Mr. Williams threads it out with a spare, sure, sharply vivid control of language&and the spell is cast."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Summer And Smoke
1st Produced:
Dallas
1947
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
8
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
revised as Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Synopsis:
The play is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until toward the end does the doctor realize that the girl's high idealism is basically right, and while she is still in love with him, it turns out that neither time nor circumstances will allow the two ultimately to come together.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Summer at the Lake
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Donald desperately seeks refuge from his hectoring mother who perpetually nags him on topics that seem alternately trivial and all too painfully pertinent to his future. At every available opportunity he flees to the lake where he swims alone. Finally, he doesn't return.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Sunburst
1st Produced:
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Company:
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ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Sweet Bird of Youth
1st Produced:
Coral Gables, Florida
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1959
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
15
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
As New York Newsday describes: "Its two central characters are the Princess, an aging motion picture actress in flight from her latest screen disaster, and Chance Wayne, a young hustler whom she has picked up. Taking advantage of her drunkenness and his youth and good looks, he manages to lure her to the Southern town of his birth in order to see again a young girl with whom he has had an affair and whom he still loves. Word of his arrival spreads like contagion through the small town. Boss Finley, a political despot and father of the young girl, is especially interested. What Chance does not know is that unwittingly he has infected the girl and ever since the Boss, his sadistic son and his toadies have lain in wait for his return and for their revenge. Chance's scheme is to use the Princess to promote a motion picture career for himself and his girl. Naturally this falls afoul and in the end the avengers are about to close in on the passively waiting Chance, who has been deserted by his patroness and far worse, by his youth."
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Talk To Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
1st Produced:
Westport, Connecticut
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY (revised), 1953
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
"Morning-After" scene of moving drama wherein a wife decides to leave her husband under tragic circumstances.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Ten Blocks On The Camino Real
1st Produced:
-
1948
Company:
-
1st Published:
in American Blues: Five Short Plays, Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1948
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
13
Female
3
Parts Other:
10 dancers (flexible casting
Notes:
In 1948, Elia Kazan first workshopped these scenes at the Actors Studio, and that work grew into the full-length play Camino Real
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Tennessee Laughs
1st Produced:
Chicago
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
The Frosted Glass Coffin in "Dragon Country", New Directions, New York, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Three 1 Act plays
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
includes Some Problems For the Moose Lodge, A Perfect Analysis given By a Parrot, The Frosted Glass Coffin
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Thank You, Kind Spirit
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
7
Parts Other:
1g extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mother Duclos is a spiritualist dispensing succour, on payment of a fee, to the troubled people who come to her chapel. But a woman incites everyone to turn against her, and they strip the chapel of its religious artefacts. Desolate, Mother Duclos is comforted finally by the crippled little girl who returns to say that she still believes.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
These Are the Stairs You Got to Watch
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
optional extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Carl, veteran usher at the third-rate Joy Rio Cinema, is showing the ropes to a schoolboy, newly hired to work in the summer holidays. The boy is introduced to the sleazy workings of the cinema by being instructed not to let patrons go upstairs. However, the patrons are hell-bent on going upstairs, including the seductive Gladys who's determined to get the boy to follow her
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
This Is an Entertainment
1st Produced:
Geary Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
2 acts
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A Count and Countess try to withstand an attack of an alien, unseen enemy for their base in an European hotel.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
This Is The Peaceable Kingdom
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
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1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
This Property Is Condemned
1st Produced:
New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
1942
Company:
-
1st Published:
in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One Act Plays, New Directions, NY, 1946
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dramatic Dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The story of a 13 year old girl living on a railroad embankment in Mississippi. She's been abandoned by her parents and her sister died. She dropped out of school and lives alone.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Three Players Of A Summer Game
1st Produced:
White Barn Theatre, Westport CT
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Dramatic Dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
This play started as a short story by the same name and was turned into the award winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Synopsis:
A former athlete (Brick), now an alcoholic, has an affair with the widow of his deceased doctor. He is left by her and, due to his broken leg, he is at the mercy of his wife who drives him everywhere he has to go.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Tiger Tail
1st Produced:
Atlanta
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
To Heaven In a Golden Coach
1st Produced:
Bromley, Kent
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Travelling Companion, The
1st Produced:
Irish Reperatory Theatre (New York, NY).
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
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One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Conversation between an aging homosexual and a young hustler, who are traveling together.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Two Character Play, The
1st Produced:
London
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Out Cry
Synopsis:
Two actors, a brother and sister, meet in the empty playhouse where their theatre company is scheduled to perform that evening. But apparently the other actors have deserted them, and absconded with their money, so the two decide to perform the "Two-Character Play," extemporizing the parts not memorized or not yet written. Thus the play-within-a-play begins, and it proves to be so compelling, and so deeply affecting, that soon both they and the audience are no longer sure as to where the play stops and real life takes over. In the end unanswered questions linger, but, with them, overtones of larger truths revealed and deeper meanings brought into light at last.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Vieux Carre
1st Produced:
St. James Theatre. New York City
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Directions, New York, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
9
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
May 16, 1978. Playhouse Theatre. Nottingham, UK
Synopsis:
The place is a rooming house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the time the late Thirties. As narrated by The Writer, a young man recently arrived from St. Louis, the action is concerned with interlocking lives of the various residents: a tubercular, homosexual painter; a doomed young girl and her coarse lover; two aging "ladies" living in near poverty; and the eccentric irrepressible landlady, who veers from cruelty to sentiment in her treatment of her charges. Filled with evocative memories, and sharply etched portraits of its singular characters, the play centers first on The Writer, and his seduction by The Painter; and then probes into the fateful love of the young girl for her studshe dying of leukemia, and he torn between his debt to her and his urge to escape the consequences of her condition. It is a play of echoes and remembrances, a series of engrossing scenes, sometimes brutally candid sometimes delicately poetic, which are woven together into a rich and revealing tapestry, glinting with theatricality and throbbing with the feel of life.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mister Paradise and Other One Act Plays, Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mrs Yorke struts and preens herself in the mirror of her fashionable apartment while daughter, Lily, does nothing but chain-smoke and make cynical comments. Driven to near insanity by her overbearing mother, Lily can hear her mother's fretful, incessant voice even when she's not there. Her entrapment is total; there is no escape.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?
1st Produced:
Key West, Florida
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
978-0811-21708-8
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Genre:
2 act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A lonely woman and her friend wait for Mr. Merriwether to return home, and while they wait they see apparitions of historical characters such as Rimbaud and van Gogh.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
You Touched Me!
1st Produced:
Cleveland Playhouse. Cleveland, OH
1943
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1947
ISBN
-
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Genre:
3 acts
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Donald Windham, suggested by a story by D. H. Lawrence
Synopsis:
Hadrian comes home to find his family and home under the control of his overwhelming spintress aunt. Eventually, Emmie, the spintress, loses control over the family and persues an unsuspecting Reverend.
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