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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.
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore is a play in a prologue and six scenes, written by Tennessee Williams.He told John Gruen in 1965 that it was "the play that I worked on longest," and he premiered a version of it at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in July 1962.
Though granting that Tennessee Williams is "an interesting writer and a sensitive man," and that these eleven works of fiction in the collection are "electrifying," The New York Times critic James Kelly reports: "[E]ven healthy optimism is nearly invisible in the lurid studies of perversion, madness and human decay covered…"
Regarding this production, Williams wrote in his Memoirs, "The laughter, genuine and loud, at the comedy I had written enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that's saved my life." [3] [4] It was published for the first time in 2016, in the Tennessee Williams Annual ...
The years 1948-1952 were a “golden age” for Williams, both personally and professionally. [4] Literary critic and biographer Gore Vidal termed 1948 Williams’ “ annus mirabilis " [ 5 ] Literary critic Dennis Vannatta cautions that “although this period produced a bright flowering of his short fiction, not every story written during ...
“The Night of the Iguana” is a short story by Tennessee Williams first appearing in the collection One Arm and Other Stories (1948) published by New Directions. [1] Elements of the story provided the basis for Williams's play The Night of the Iguana (1961). [2] [3] The play was in turn adapted to a film of the same name (1964) directed by ...
In his review for The New York Times, critic Clive Barnes wrote "there are people who think that Camino Real was Tennessee Williams's best play, and I believe that they are right. It is a play that seems to have been torn out of a human soul, a tale told by an idiot signifying a great deal of suffering and a great deal of gallantry."
Williams began work on the play in the fall of 1959, calling it at first The Enemy of Time. [2] As Sweet Bird of Youth, the work-in-progress had a tryout production starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Drivas in Coral Gables, Florida, directed by George Keathley [2] at his Studio M Playhouse in 1956 [3] [4] which began before Williams' agent Audrey Wood knew he had a new play. [5]