Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays - Softcover

Williams, Tennessee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811225569 ISBN 13: 9780811225564

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2016

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Críticas:

Mr. Williams is a master of the short play.--Clive Barnes

Williams was always confronting the future; a shaman with a typewriter, he dug into the darkest depths of the American psyche in search of dramatic truths.--Randy Gener

From Williams, it seems, there are treasures to be plundered still.--Laura Collins-Hughes

Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws is a loopy send-up of New York society, written in a gleefully absurdist mode.--Bruce Weber

A Recluse and His Guest has remarkable language; indeed one listens for how the Master keeps showing up in late-career scripts.--Hilton Als

Steps Must Be Gentle provides a tantalizing peek into Williams's preoccupation with death, suicide, and creativity.--Tom Valeo

The Strange Play and Ivan's Widow make for intriguing theater, both in their own right and as a part of the legacy of Tennessee Williams--a playwright who prowled the world's dark corners long before, and long after, he shone under the bright lights of Broadway.--Brad Rhine

The Strange Play is delightful and bizarre.--Tyler Gillespie

The Demolition Downtown wrings laughter from the plight of a couple whose lives have been ruined by a new political order bent upon demolishing, literally and otherwise, the lives of its citizens.--Eric Marchese, Backstage, Los Angeles

Reseña del editor:

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0811225569
• ISBN 13: 9780811225564
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Keith Thomas