2012 preview

"In memory everything seems to happen to music"
– The Glass Menagerie

Clap your hands and shake a leg at the plays we're presenting in September 2012 at the 7th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

This year's theme, Tennessee Williams and Music, takes dramatic notice of the pleasures of music. Williams put Christmas carols into his plays, along with pop tunes from the American songbook, Country and Western ballads, the Mississippi blues, and Mexican love songs. His poetry has a music all its own.

Plays will be performed in venues all over Provincetown, where you can bend an ear to a timeworn classic, or tap your toes to something brand new... all inspired by Tennessee Williams.

 

WILLIAMS CLASSICS:

The Glass Menagerie
As a desperate son boils inside his family's stifling apartment, the dance band from the Paradise Dance Hall can be heard playing on the other side of the alley.

 

 

This Property Is Condemned
What can't be spoken can be sung aloud: "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven"

 

 

 

WILLIAMS REDISCOVERY:

Auto-da-Fé
The raucous sounds of a parade draw closer to the guilty secrets hidden between mother and son on a French Quarter porch.

 

 

WILLIAMS INSPIRATIONS:

 

Gift of an Orange
Sparked by the short story "Gift of an Apple" a Cajun-flavored play about an older woman's passion, set to African drums. 

 

 

For the Sake of a Single Poem
Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry - an early Williams influence - set to gripping new music by composer George Maurer.

 

And much more...

 

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Now Through March 15!

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