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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr
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Description for Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Paperback. Num Pages: 784 pages, 2 x 8pp B&W plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; AN; BGF; DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 52. Weight in Grams: 652.
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, `like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway premiere, which had been heading for disaster, closed to an astonishing twenty-four curtain calls and became an instant sell-out. Beloved by an American public, Tennessee Williams's work - blood hot and personal - pioneered, as Arthur Miller declared, `a revolution' in American theatre. Tracing Williams's turbulent moral and ... Read more
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, `like a farm boy in his Sunday best'. The Broadway premiere, which had been heading for disaster, closed to an astonishing twenty-four curtain calls and became an instant sell-out. Beloved by an American public, Tennessee Williams's work - blood hot and personal - pioneered, as Arthur Miller declared, `a revolution' in American theatre. Tracing Williams's turbulent moral and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
784
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408831458
SKU
V9781408831458
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About John Lahr
John Lahr was the senior drama critic for the New Yorker for twenty years. He is a critic, novelist and biographer and is the author of seventeen books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion, the biography of Bert Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, the biography of Joe Orton, which was made into a film in collaboration with Alan Bennett, and ... Read more
Reviews for Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
A masterpiece about a genius
Helen Mirren
Testimony to the crazy exhilaration of the entire theatrical process, and to the self-destructive solipsism of a great artist
Nicholas Hytner, Observer Books of the Year
John Lahr's monumental tribute to the play's 34-year-old creator, the son of a frigid, hysterical virago and a combustible father - a travelling ... Read more
Helen Mirren
Testimony to the crazy exhilaration of the entire theatrical process, and to the self-destructive solipsism of a great artist
Nicholas Hytner, Observer Books of the Year
John Lahr's monumental tribute to the play's 34-year-old creator, the son of a frigid, hysterical virago and a combustible father - a travelling ... Read more