The Traveling Companion & Other Plays (New Directions

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The Traveling Companion & Other Plays (New Directions Paperbook)

Twelve previously uncollected experimental shorter plays: The Chalky White Substance â€¢ The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play) â€¢ A Cavalier for Milady â€¢ The Pronoun "I" â€¢ The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde â€¢ Kirche, KÃ¼che, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) â€¢ Green Eyes â€¢ The Parade â€¢ The One Exception â€¢ Sunburst â€¢ Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? â€¢ The Traveling Companion

Even with his great commercial success, Tennessee Williams always considered himself an experimental playwright. In the last 25 years of his life his explorations increasedâ€”especially in shorter forms and one-act playsâ€”as Williams created performance pieces with elements of theater of the absurd, theater of cruelty, theater of the ridiculous, as well as motifs from Japanese forms such as Noh and Kabuki, high camp and satire, and with innovative visual and verbal styles that were entirely his own.

Influenced by Beckett, Genet, and Pinter, among others, Williams worked hard to expand the boundaries of the lyric realism he was best known for. These plays were explicitly intended to be performed off-off Broadway or regionally. Sometimes disturbing, sometimes outrageous, quite often the tone of these plays is rough, bawdy or even cartoonish. While a number of these plays employ what could be termed bizarre "happy endings," others gaze unblinkingly into the darkness.

Though several of Williams' lesser-known works from this period have already been published by New Directions, these twelve plays have never been collected. Most of these shorter plays are unknown to audiences and scholarsâ€”some are published here for the first timeâ€”yet all of them embrace, in one way or another, what Time magazine called "the four major concerns that have spurred Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival."

Country	USA
Author	Tennessee Williams
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780811226417
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2008-04-17
Publisher	New Directions
ReleaseDate	2016-03-04
Studio	New Directions

The Traveling Companion & Other Plays (New Directions Paperbook)

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