Twelve previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance - The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) - A Cavalier for Milady - The Pronoun "I" - The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde - Kirche, K???che, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) - Green Eyes - The Parade - The One Exception - Sunburst - Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? - The Traveling Companion
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Twelve previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance - The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) - A Cavalier for Milady - The Pronoun "I" - The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde - Kirche, K???che, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) - Green Eyes - The Parade - The One Exception - Sunburst - Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? - The Traveling Companion
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Writing bad reviews of later Tennessee Williams plays has become an industry, with numerous people joining in gleefully. It's true that Tennessee did drift away from the gentle sentiment of "memory plays" into harsh symbolism that doesn't touch the heart. Maybe he had been isolated and lonely for too long, inured to being a prisoner of his own success, to feel kindly towards characters like Blanche once more in his lifetime. If so, writing symbolic plays did keep him alert, and there are things in his later output that really do work. "A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coieur" would have a better audience if attendees didn't compare it to "Streetcar." It really can touch the heart. So can :Something Cloudy, Something Clear." The predecessor of the latter play is "Parade," in this collection, and possibly one of the plays you might like. Many of the others would make for wonderful acting class plays because of their interesting characters and situations. Can't we take Tennessee Williams for the person he was, instead of inventing an imaginary playwright who tried but failed to wow us with another "Cat" ? Can we enjoy the bits and insights his later plays give us? William Butler Yeats, universally acclaimed as a great poet, wrote a volume of plays that nobody produces; are they therefore worthless?
