Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207580
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE STORY: NOTE: The version of the play contained in this acting edition is one which was specifically revised by the author for release to the nonprofessional theatre. As George Oppenheimer describes We first encounter Mrs. Goforth in one of her
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207580
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE STORY: NOTE: The version of the play contained in this acting edition is one which was specifically revised by the author for release to the nonprofessional theatre. As George Oppenheimer describes We first encounter Mrs. Goforth in one of her
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207580
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE STORY: NOTE: The version of the play contained in this acting edition is one which was specifically revised by the author for release to the nonprofessional theatre. As George Oppenheimer describes We first encounter Mrs. Goforth in one of her
The Two-character Play
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207294
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207294
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.
Girl Intrepid
Author: Leslie Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951937249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951937249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226352
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226352
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead. While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.
Not about Nightingales
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213806
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213806
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
One of Tennessee Williams's first plays, "Not About Nightingales" portrays the lives of inmates in a Pennsylvania prison who were steamed to death after leading their fellow prisoners on a hunger strike.
Tennessee Williams 101
Author: Augustin J Correro
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1455625353
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1455625353
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.
The Red Devil Battery Sign
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780811210478
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780811210478
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This book is William's symbol for the military-industrial complex and all the dehumanizing trends it represents from mindless cocktail party chatter to bribery of officials to assassination plots directed against those who won't play the game, to attempted coups by right-wing zealots.
The Night of the Iguana
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081121852X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (“the world’s oldest living and practicing poet”), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the author’s original Foreword, the short story “The Night of the Iguana” which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. “I’m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent—yeah, that’s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of this…this…this angry, petulant old man.” —The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081121852X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (“the world’s oldest living and practicing poet”), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the author’s original Foreword, the short story “The Night of the Iguana” which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. “I’m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent—yeah, that’s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of this…this…this angry, petulant old man.” —The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
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.
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.
The Best Film You've Never Seen
Author: Robert K. Elder
Publisher: Zephyr Press
ISBN: 1569768382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.
Publisher: Zephyr Press
ISBN: 1569768382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Thirty-five directors reveal which overlooked or critically savaged films they believe deserve a larger audience while offering advice on how to watch each film.