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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). A family in the American South is in crisis, especially the husband and wife, Brick and Margaret (usually called Maggie or "Maggie the Cat"), and the crisis unspools with Brick's family over the course of one evening's gathering at the family plantation in Mississippi.
The Lanier family tree contains a number of musicians in the English royal court. This tree is not complete but is focused on showing the relationship of the well-known members of the family. This tree is not complete but is focused on showing the relationship of the well-known members of the family.
Tennessee's law sent the Williams family scrambling to find out-of-state doctors. Some Tennessee families affected by the law left a state they felt was dangerously hostile to their family ...
The story is told from a third-person omniscient point-of-view.. Miss Edith Jelkes, a pretty and refined 30-year-old descends from the gentry of the Old South.Her character and motivations derive from a dichotomous heritage: one branch of the family consists of alcoholics and artists, prone to licentiousness; the other branch are socially conservative celibates.
Stanley already knows Blanche is staying with the Kowalskis because she is homeless; her family's ancestral mansion, Belle Reve, has been mortgaged. He learns from Shaw that she was paid to leave Mississippi to quell gossip about her many affairs, which she began after her husband, a closeted homosexual , committed suicide.
The crumbling house was a metaphor for contemporary society, while the characters were drawn from the Williams family, notably his father Cornelius, his aunt Belle, his paternal grandfather, and his brother Dakin. The play opened in late April 1982 at the Goodman, where it did respectable business through the end of May.
The Glass Menagerie [2] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.