Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her youth and legendary beauty slipped away. So she escapes to Rome. But even the distractions of the Eternal City cannot stop old age wrinkling its way into her life.
Mrs Stone changed from a famous, rich American actress to a notorious, very rich American widow. But the transition took years and all that time her y...
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here, thirteen never-before-published one-act dramas reveal some of his most poignant and hilarious characters. From the indefatigable, witty and tough drag queens of And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens to the disheartened poet Mister Paradise, and the extravagant mistress in The Pink Bedroom, these are tales of isolated figures struggling against a cruel world, who refuse to lose sight of their...
The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the them...
Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, Kip is a character on the verge of adulthood learning about love, his sexuality and the poetry that breathes within him. The play echoes Williams' own experiences during that pivotal summer when I was on the brink of growing up.
Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, Kip is a character on the verge of adulthood learning about love, his sexuality and the poetry that breathes w...
Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay 'Baby Doll' opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her 20th birthday. This volume also contains 'Something Unspoken' and 'Summer and Smoke'.
Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay 'Baby Doll' opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refus...
This is the first trade paperback edition ofThe 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...
This is the first trade paperback edition ofThe Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, t...
I cannot write any sort of story, said Tennessee to Gore Vidal] unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. These transgressive Tales of Desire, including One Arm, Desire and the Black Masseur, Hard Candy, and The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen, show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best."
I cannot write any sort of story, said Tennessee to Gore Vidal] unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. These t...
Da ihr Leben zu scheitern droht, flüchtet sich die mittellose Blanche zu ihrer in kleinen Vehältnissen lebenden Schwester Stella. Das 1947 uraufgeführte Beziehungsdrama beschreibt die Konfrontation zwischen der alternden Südstaatenschönheit Blanche und ihrem Schwager, dem Einwanderer Stanley. Während Blanche versucht, die Fassade einer wohlhabenden Plantagenbesitzertochter aufrechtzuerhalten, hält Stanley ihr ihren wahren Lebenswandel vor und sabotiert ihre Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben mit ihrem Verehrer Mitch.
Da ihr Leben zu scheitern droht, flüchtet sich die mittellose Blanche zu ihrer in kleinen Vehältnissen lebenden Schwester Stella. Das 1947 uraufgefÃ...
