Author: American Educational Theatre Association
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Katharina Kullmer
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2008-01-18
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 3638895548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), language: English, abstract: The play “Orpheus Descending” was first presented on Broadway in 1957 where it only had a short run with modest success; it was almost universally condemned by critics. The play is a rewrite of an earlier play by Williams called “Battle of Angels”. In 1940 the Theatre Guild had produced “Battle of Angels” in Boston but it had been very poorly received. The play was withdrawn after Boston’s “Watch and Ward Society” had banned it. The reason for this lay within the explosive topics it deals with such as racism, (suppressed) sexuality, adultery, corruption and murder. Even tough Williams rewrote his play several times and worked on it for 17 years, “Orpheus Descending” too, was harshly criticized and widely considered a failure. Nevertheless, the play has been made into a movie twice: The first movie version was titled “The Fugitive Kind” (1959) and directed by Sidney Lumet and Tennessee Williams himself. Starring actors were Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward and Anna Magnani. The second movie version is a TV production from 1990 and bears the name of the play “Orpheus Descending”. It is directed by British theatre and film director Peter Hall, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Kevin Anderson. Tennessee Williams drama “Orpheus Descending” involves a lot of aspects that can also be discovered in his more popular plays.
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780811204170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now available as a paperbook, Volume VIII adds to the series' four full-length plays written and produced during the last decade of Williams' life.
Author: William Waite Beardsley
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An encyclopedic supplement and review of national and international events of ...
Author: Professor Stacy Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0190639555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The idea of American musical theatre often conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in amateur productions at high schools, community theatres, afterschool programs, summer camps, and dinner theatres. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf looks at the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a social practice--a live, visceral experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans continue to passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? And why do audiences still flock to musicals in their hometowns? Touring American elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres from California to Tennessee, Wolf illustrates musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving social activity that touches millions of lives.
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780822208655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: As The New York Times describes, The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love--not in Hades, precisely,
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822200994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: As in its later and substantially re-written version (entitled ORPHEUS DESCENDING), the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi. He takes a job in the dry goods stor