Not About Nightingales
A Drama, Southern, American book. This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were...
In early 1998, sixty years after it was written, one of Tennessee Williams' first full-length plays, Not About Nightingales, was premiered by Britain's Royal National Theatre and was immediately hailed as "one of the most remarkable theatrical discoveries of the last quarter century (London Evening Standard). Brought to the attention of the director Trevor Nunn by the actress Vanessa Redgrave (who has contributed a Foreword to this edition), "this early work...changed our perception of a major writer and still packs a hefty political punch" (London Independent). Written in 1938 and based on an actual...
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This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky. Tennessee Williams, Not About Nightingales
This play would almost seem like a cliche due to the prison genre archetypes that exist within it - the evil warden, the con with a heart of gold, the prissy queen, the young kid who you just know prison will kill. The setting is basically Alcatraz, although it is not named, a prison on an island where the sea surrounding it will come... There is a story worth knowing behind Tennessee Williams' early play, "Not About Nightingales". Williams began writing the play in 1938 while living in St. Louis. He completed the work in 1939 while in New Orleans. At this time, he began calling himself "Tennessee" rather than "Tom". In 1939, Williams submitted the play to the Group... Tennessee Williams had a huge role in shaping who I am, and this book made me see God.
