Anläßlich »Big Daddys« Geburtstag trifft die gesamte Familie zusammen. Zeit, alte Familienstreitigkeiten wieder aufbrechen zu lassen, alte Haßgefühle zu aktivieren, aber auch Zeit, um sich endlich der Wahrheit zu stellen. Die Katze ist...

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...

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...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also...

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of the America's most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings...

Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look...

The Glass Menagerie: High School Edition von Williams, Tennessee

Includes three plays - "Suddenly Last Summer", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", and "Small Craft Warnings". von Williams, Tennessee

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern...

A new edition of the popular American play from 1944, edited by Stephen Bottoms. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes* von Williams, Tennessee

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it...

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American...