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Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws and Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811225569
ISBN-139780811225564
eBay Product ID (ePID)218904789
Product Key Features
Book TitleNow the Cats with Jeweled Claws and Other One-Act Plays
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), American / General
GenreDrama, Fiction
AuthorTennessee Williams
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-005199
ReviewsA Recluse and His Guest has remarkable langua≥ indeed one listens for how the Master keeps showing up in late-career scripts., A Recluse and His Guest has remarkable langua≥ indeed one listens for how the Master keeps showing up in late-career scripts., Steps Must Be Gentle provides a tantalizing peek into Williams's preoccupation with death, suicide, and creativity., 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., 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., I do not want to reveal too many of The Strange Play's secrets--its embrace of a whimsical, ethereal, and, yes, strange, world is most pleasing when it is a surprise to the audience., Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws is a loopy send-up of New York society, written in a gleefully absurdist mode., 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., In A Recluse and His Guest, America's most poetic playwright brings to life an entire relationship of depth and intimacy, from the first meeting to the last, in an astonishingly short amount of time., The fact that This Is the Peaceable Kingdom takes place in New York puts a whole different spin on the play and gives the poetry a different kind of starkness., You won't forget Now The Cats with Jeweled Claws--I've seen quite a few late-period Williams curios but this mesmerizing 1981 piece may be the most demented of them all.
SynopsisThis 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., 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., "The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays--like firecrackers in a rope." --Tennessee Williams
LC Classification NumberPS3545.I5365A6 2016
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