“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
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 inNow 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 Five previously unpublished plays include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.
A propos de l’auteur
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, Thomas Keith is an editor, as well as production manager and art director, at New Directions Publishing. He lives in New York City.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9780811225571 ● Taille du fichier 1.7 MB ● Éditeur Thomas Keith ● Maison d’édition New Directions ● Pays US ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7469986 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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