The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America's most consistently influential and innovative dramatists. The first five volumes of this ongoing series contain Williams' full-length plays through 1975 and, in addition to the texts themselves, include original cast listings and production notes. Volumes VI and VII contain Williams' collected shorter plays.
Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
Poems deal with truth, religion, nature, thought, the role of poetry, death, visions, age, and the past. This is a vigorous, diversified volume by a man whose create energies have if anything expanded with his years.
Volume III of the series includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Suddenly Last Summer (1958).
Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes for all full-length plays.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/Orpheus Descending/Suddenly Last Summer
THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written 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.
A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.
"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 Theatre of Tennessee Williams: 27 wagons full of cotton and other short plays
In The Theatre of Tennessee Williams. Ed. Brenda Murphy. London: Methuen, 2014. Homo americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.