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Tennessee Williams
1) Plays
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The adventurous and sometimes shocking later works of playwright Tennessee Williams, from 1957 to 1980, are collected in this volume, which includes "Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer", and "The Night of the Iguana".
Author
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
After what producer David Susskind called "the longest wooing for a part in a lifetime of dealaint with stars," four=time Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn made her television dramatic debut as the indomitable, overbeating matriarch Amanda Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' poignant 1945 memory play. The Gladd Menagerie portrays a mother whose preoccupation with her past as a Southern belle and her unrealistic dreams for her children's futures threaten...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. As his emotional state continues to unravel, and the group's problems increase,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this troubling time.