Two short plays by Tennessee Williams pair autobiography & science-fiction. Tennessee Suite begins with The Traveling Companion, a late self-portrait by Tennessee Williams in which a famous author (Vieux) checks into a Manhattan hotel room with only…
Tennessee Williams’ first version of The Rose Tattoo Tennessee Williams worked up his full-length plays by writing short versions first. His ease and excellence at devising one-acts was such he wrote over seventy of them — and…
An outdoor production in the Paysandú marketplace, in 2012. Above: Pavlo Coll as Kilroy Raul Rodriguez and his Taller de Teatro de Paysandú, Uruguay are quite special: a small company with a circle of students,…
Songs chosen by Tennessee WIlliams to be sung in his plays as counterpoint to his dialog. Performed by Alison Fraser. Orchestrations by Alison Leyton-Brown. Photos by Ride Hamilton. In a play written by Tennessee William,…
Playing Episodes, Part Two in the Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan is the second part in the series. An episode is something that happens onstage that the audience understands separately from the…
Tennessee Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennessee Williams’ four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1940, ’41, ’44 and ’47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown Williams…
Tennessee Williams’ Alma, in love since childhood with the boy next door. In an interview given in 1972, Williams said “I think the character I like most is Miss Alma … You see, Alma went through…
A Sufi interpretation of Shakespeare’s text staged in Uzbekistan in the Uzbek language.
Uzbekistan is in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan. The Uzbeks are the descendants of Chinggis Khan who converted to Islam in the 1300’s. In the deserts of this country, the Mongolian shaman was absorbed into the role of the dervish, and the shaman’s ecstatic flight transformed to a whirling dance: the way of the Sufi.
Shakespeare’s play with shamans, Soviet Generals, and the gods of the Central Asian lakes and forest.
Buryatia is the Buddhist nation in Russian Siberia. Sheep-herding nomads have lived there for centuries on the shores of the vast Lake Baikal combining ancient Shamanism with the Buddhism of the Dalai Lama.
Tennessee Williams’ meditation on the death of Jackson Pollock The Day on Which a Man Dies was written by Tennessee Williams at the height of his public success (1957-59) and kept by the author in reserve.…