Tennessee Williams

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Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble, threatening to destroy her sanity and her one chance of happiness.

"El zoo de cristal" es una declaración de intenciones. El teatro no puede ni debe ser una sucesión de diálogos y acotaciones. Una pieza dramática es la obra de arte más completa, pues en ella intervienen los mas variados lenguajes. La pieza, mas alla de valoraciones caducas, es un prodigio de teatro plastico. Por su parte, "Un tranvia llamado Deseo" es un clasico de la dramaturgia occidental. Como todo clasico, nunca ha tenido mas vigencia que en estos momentos. Cuando Blanche le pide a su hermana Stella que no se quede atras con las bestias y afirma que Stanley no puede ser la "solucion", habla en nombre de una humanidad asediada por la brutalidad, la intolerancia, los atavismos y la mediocridad mas ramplona; es decir, habla en nombre de todos nosotros.

Especie fugitiva es una de las piezas tempranas de Tennessee Williams. Escrita y estrenada en 1937, se ocupa de caracteres, temas y situaciones que luego poblaron sus grandes obras: un mundo de seres frágiles o violentos pero siempre inadaptados a una realidad hostil, en este caso, la de una gran ciudad como Saint Louis.

En la comunitat siciliana d'una petita població nord-americana no gaire lluny de Nova Orleans, Serafina delle Rose espera al seu marit, transportista. Ben aviat sabrem, però que l'home ja no tornarà…

Tennessee Williams' controversial Hollywood screenplay "Baby Doll" opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva Vaccaro, Archie's rival both in the cotton business and for the affections of the flirtatious Baby Doll, and things reach breaking-point. This volume also contains "Something Unspoken", a brilliantly comic study of a wealthy, manipulative Southern spinster, and "Summer and Smoke", a sexually charged portrayal of Alma, a sensitive, unmarried minister's daughter, and her childhood love, the wild, sensual doctor's son John.

These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by a sense of isolation and regret. "Suddenly Last Summer" is the starkly told story of Catherine, who seemingly goes insane after her cousin Sebastian dies in grisly circumstances on a trip to Europe. "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" is a passionate examination of a wealthy old woman as she recounts her memories in the face of death, while in "Small Craft Warnings" a motley group of people - including a blowsy beautician, a discredited alcoholic doctor, a vulnerable waif and two gay men - sit around a seedy bar on the Californian coast, each contemplating their own desperate fate.

''Big Daddy'' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.

Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In "Sweet Bird of Youth", a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results. "Period of Adjustment" tells the story of two young newlyweds who visit the husband's old army friend on Christmas Eve after unsuccessfully consummating their marriage, and unleash forbidden passion, while in "The Night of the Iguana" a diverse group of people, including a disturbed ex-minister and a troubled spinster, are thrown together in an isolated Mexican hotel for one eventful night.

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