To check out all my reviews: http://dancinginth3dark.blogspot.comI AM GOING TO SPOIL THE LIFE OUT OF THIS PLAY BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT ANYONE ELSE TO READ IT! YOU ARE WARNED!!!This play has been on my shelf for a few years now and yet I am still trying to figure out why I haven't read it until now....
What do you say after reading this book?There are moments of clarity, but they are few and far between. The sentences end without punctuation in the middle of a thought, characters ramble on for pages without knowing what they're talking about.In the middle of it is glimpses of the former Willia...
“All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” (Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina," 1876)Living with someone you love in a household of lies can be lonelier than living entirely alone. Lies are the harvest on the 28,000-acre Delta plantation that is the setting...
BABY DOLL & TIGER TAIL. (1941 & 1979). Tennessee Williams. ***.“Baby Doll” was a screenplay written by Williams. The film itself was released in 1956, and featured Caroll Baker, as Baby Doll, with Eli Wallach and Karl Malden as the other principal players. It was directed by Elia Kazan. I r...
The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New Yor...
Louis. The interior is what was called an efficiency apartment in the period of this play, the middle or late thirties. It is in the West End of St. Louis. Attempts to give the apartment brightness and cheer have gone brilliantly and disastrously wrong, and this wrongness is emphasized by the fie...
There is a picture of Van Gogh's of a billiard-parlor at night. The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colors of childhood's spectrum. Over the yellow linoleum of the kitchen table hangs an electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade. The poker players—Stanley,...
The shuttered doors of the room open directly upon the sidewalk and the noise of the Mardi Gras festivities can be faintly distinguished. The interior is very dusky. Beside a rose-shaded lamp, the Spinster, a woman of forty, is sewing. In the opposite corner, completely motionless, the Old Woman ...
Nightingale is adjusting a neckerchief about his wasted throat. He enters the writer’s cubicle without knocking. NIGHTINGALE: May I intrude once more? It’s embarrassing—this incident. Not of any importance, nothing worth a second thought. [He coughs.] Oh Christ. You know my mattress is full of be...
The town is Primanproper, Massachusetts, which lies within the cultural orbit of Boston. The play starts in the early morning. Miss Simple, very agitated for some reason, has just opened her little shop. She stands in the open door in a flood of spring sunlight, but her face expresses grief and i...