The Rose Tattoo

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218821
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Larger than life - a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama - the Tony Award-winning The Rose Tattoo is a valentine from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love. In the midst of her anger and grief over news that her late husband had been unfaithful, Serafina delle Rose is courted by a Sicilian truck driver who has the virile body of her husband and the face of a clown - his name, Mangiacavallo, means "eat a horse" in Italian. Teary-eyed, he declares, "I am a human being that drives a truck for bananas." His clumsy flirting unlocks Serafina's fiery passion, wit and eventually, her capacious love.

The Rose Tattoo ; Camino Real ; Orpheus Descending

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141186504
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
Loss, faded lies and passionate love affairs . . . Three exotic, steamy dramas in which Tennessee Williams takes us from a bustling Sicilian-American community and a life-affirming celebration of love and sex in The Rose Tattoo, into a colourful tropical fantasy in Camino Royal and then finally into the familiar dark territory of Williams' Deep South in Orpheus Descending: the corrupt hell of a small, brutal township, where a forbidden and tragic love affair sparks horrific violence.

Three by Tennessee

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Traveling Companion and Other Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"Collected here for the first time, these twelve plays embrace what Time magazine called "the four major concerns of Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival"--Back cover.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Mister Paradise and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216203
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211963
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958). The first, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Award, has proved every bit as successful as William's earlier A Streetcar Named Desire. The other two plays, though different in kind, both have something of the quality of Greek tragedy in 20th-century settings, bringing about catharsis through ritual death.

Hannah and Martin

Author: Kate Fodor
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822220190
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
THE STORY: HANNAH AND MARTIN is based on the relationship between the Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt and the renowned philosopher Martin Heidegger. In Germany in the 1920s, Heidegger and Arendt have a tumultuous love affair while he is a p

Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer

Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225321
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Two of Tennessee Williams's most revered dramas in a single paperback edition for the first time. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic drifter Valentine Xavier arrives in a Mississippi Delta town with his guitar and snakeskin jacket, he becomes a trigger for hatred and a magnet for three outcast souls: storekeeper Lady Torrance, “lewd vagrant” Carol Cutrere, and religious visionary Vee Talbot. Suddenly Last Summer, described by its author as a “short morality play,” has become one of his most notorious works due in no small part to the film version starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift that shocked audiences in 1959. A menacing tale of madness, jealousy, and denial,the horrors in Suddenly Last Summer build to a heart-stopping conclusion. With perceptive new introductions by playwright Martin Sherman — he reframes Orpheus Descending in a political context and explores the psychology and sensationalism surrounding Suddenly Last Summer — this volume also offers Williams’s related essay, “The Past, the Present, and the Perhaps,” and a chronology of the playwright’s life and works.

The Sound Inside

Author: Adam Rapp
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559369353
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
“The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give you the head rush of sophisticated literary allusion and unreliable narrative trickery à la Dostoevsky, and yet talk of Plano, Illinois, and let you know that he knows exactly how it feels…A gripping stunner of a play.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune When Bella Baird, an isolated creative writing professor at Yale, begins to mentor a brilliant but enigmatic student, Christopher, the two form an unexpectedly intense bond. As their lives and the stories they tell about themselves become intertwined in unpredictable ways, Bella makes a surprising request of Christopher. Brimming with suspense, Rapp’s riveting play explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.