oday the world is interested in gunpowder.
Poetry cannot compete with the sound of bursting shells.
-- Anthony Paradise in Mister Paradise

The Hotel Plays

Williams set many of his plays in hotel rooms and boarding houses: way stations between life and death, dream and reality. The Festival is presenting eight short plays by Williams set in such rooms — in productions gathered from all over the country. Gather at the Gifford House and proceed from room to room to experience Williams up-close and personal.

The 2nd part of The Hotel Plays series continues with the Rain series:

 

Rain Hotel

Talk To Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
Directed by Nick Potenzieri
The Infinite Theatre, New York, NY

Room 215 - where two lost, abandoned lovers reach for one another... and hope.

 

 

Hello from Bertha
Directed by Nick Potenzieri
The Infinite Theatre, New York, NY

The room, where in a St. Louis brothel, a woman finds she has nothing more to lose.

 

 

The Strangest Kind of Romance
Directed by Jonathan Warman
Neo Neo Theatre Company, New York, NY

Room 306 - where it's possible for a lonely man to find happiness with an abandoned cat.

 

 

Mister Paradise
Directed by Marcia Mary Cook
University of the South, Sewanee, TN

Room 53, where a young woman seeks inspiration from a reclusive writer.

 

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