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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays
They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict r...more
Paperback, 238 pages
Published
January 17th 1966
by New Directions Publishing Corporation
(first published 1945)
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Think of all the oddly placed Shakespeare adaptations -- Richard III in a 1930s Fascist state: Romeo and Juliet in a modern day South Beach, or on NY's upper west side; The Tempest in space (Forbidden Planet); Macbeth in feudal Japan (Throne of Blood). And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of odd off-Broadway productions where the director had an "idea." Many of these are truly awful, but for some reason it's tremendously easy to imagine Shakespeare in other places and a...more
نمایش نامه ی 27 واگن بار پنبه به فارسی ترجمه شده و اگر اشتباه نکنم در تله ویزیون هم اجرا شده است.
اصولن بسیاری از کارهای تنسی ویلیامز، از جمله نمایش نامه های کوتاهش در دهه ی سی بعد از کودتا به فارسی ترجمه شده، وقتی که قرار بود فرهنگ آمریکایی و انگلیسی جای خالی خودش را در ایران پر کنه و جای فرهنگ و زبان فرانسه را بگیره.
یک آقای آمریکایی هم بود که اسمش درست بخاطرم نیست که در آن سال ها در دانشکده ی ادبیات درس انگلیسی میداد (دکتر کوییئ بی؟) که برخی از آثار تنسی ویلیامز و آرتور میللر را در...more
اصولن بسیاری از کارهای تنسی ویلیامز، از جمله نمایش نامه های کوتاهش در دهه ی سی بعد از کودتا به فارسی ترجمه شده، وقتی که قرار بود فرهنگ آمریکایی و انگلیسی جای خالی خودش را در ایران پر کنه و جای فرهنگ و زبان فرانسه را بگیره.
یک آقای آمریکایی هم بود که اسمش درست بخاطرم نیست که در آن سال ها در دانشکده ی ادبیات درس انگلیسی میداد (دکتر کوییئ بی؟) که برخی از آثار تنسی ویلیامز و آرتور میللر را در...more
Short plays which are occasionally a bit more sketches than I would prefer. but there's still some quite strong writing involved. The best of the bunch are the stories 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Last of My Solid Gold Watches. Have to think about the rest.
These short plays have Tennessee Williams' name written all around them. Very recognizable, the athmosphere is there all right.
These short plays have Tennessee Williams' name written all around them. Very recognizable, the athmosphere is there all right.
A collection of 13 one-act plays, including some of Williams' most famous, such as "The Last of my Solid Gold Watches" and the titular "27 Wagons Full of Cotton"
"Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen" is a favorite as well, but I especially like "The Purification"
Tennessee Williams is fantastic and his plays are just as engaging to read as to see performed, which definitely cannot be said of all playwrights.
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"Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen" is a favorite as well, but I especially like "The Purification"
Tennessee Williams is fantastic and his plays are just as engaging to read as to see performed, which definitely cannot be said of all playwrights.
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I played Vicarro in a stage version. One of my favorites.
Contains This Property is Condemned.
27 Wagons Full of Cotton, The Purification, The Lady of Larkspur, Lotion, The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Portrait of a Madonna, Auto-Da-Fe, Lord Byron's Love Letter, The Strangest Kind of Romance, The Long Good-bye, Hello from Bertha, This Property Is Condemned, Talk to Me Like the Rain..., Something Unspoken, The Unsatisfactory Supper, Steps Must be Gentle, The Demolition Downtown
The first time I read this book I was in high school and it has stayed with me ever since. One play in particular, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen." As a Williams play, it's subtext is thick and weighty, it's nameless protagonist desperate like the rest of them.
27 Wagons is my absolute favorite Williams peice. It is dark, sad and desperate. What more southern drama do you need? Oh and the female lead is called Babydoll. Need I say more.
I got sent to the principal's office freshman year for reading this instead of "At Risk" (the book about the little girl who gets AIDS from a blood transfusion) in my English class. WTF?
The best thing to read on mass transit. One act plays, who would have thought. It's like I'm at the theater everyday, and I'm not talking about my people's chariot co-pilots.
I'm a bit biased, since I acted in this. Still, I absolutely love the plot and the characters are incredible.
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen is another of my favorite plays of all time. Love it.
GREAT!! dark southern gothic one-acts. the title play is spectacular.
"This Property is Condemned" is my all-time favorite short.
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Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot...more
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