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2006 - Tennessee Williams & Provincetown
The first Festival was held September 28 to October 1, 2006, and presented plays Williams worked on in Provincetown, including The Glass Menagerie and the world premiere of The Parade, Williams' 1940 gay romance, along with 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper from Mississippi State University, This Property Is Condemned from The University of the South, and scenes from the Hong Kong Repertory Theater's Cantonese The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.
Work adapted from Williams shown at the first Festival included opera and ballet versions of A Streetcar Named Desire thanks to Atlanta's Capital City Opera and Lowell Smith from The Dance Theater of Harlem. Williams' poetry was set to music in David Landon's The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer, Williams' Provincetown diaries inspired Carson Efird Dance Theater's The Road to Paradise, and the Festival screened a film adaptation of Williams' short story The Yellow Bird directed by Faye Dunaway.
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Festival Productions of Tennessee Williams’ Works:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (2006, 2010)
Adam and Eve on a Ferry (2008)
Aimez-Vouz Ionesco? (2015 World Premiere)
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer (2014)
American Gothic (2010 World Premiere)
And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... (2019)
A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (2016)
A Recluse and His Guest (2023)
A Streetcar Named Desire (opera adaptation 2006, ballet adaptation 2006, 2009, Neo-Benshi adaptation 2013, 2022)
At Liberty (2013)
Auto-da-Fé (2012)
Battle of Angels (2021)
Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay! (2013)
Camino Real (2007, 2008)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013, 2022)
Clothes for a Summer Hotel (music adaptation 2009, 2025)
Curtains for the Gentleman (2013 World Premiere)
Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Cantonese scenes 2006, scenes 2008, Portuguese adaptation 2011)
Escape (2010)
Green Eyes (2008 World Premiere, 2011)
Hello from Bertha (2009)
I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow (2007)
I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays (2012)
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (2016)
Kingdom of Earth (2012, 2013)
Kirche Küche Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) (2016)
Mr. Paradise (2009, 2017)
Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws (2011)
Once in a Lifetime (2011 World Premiere)
Orpheus Descending (2010, 2011)
Period of Adjustment (2014)
Portrait of a Madonna (Italian adaptation 2012)
Slapstick Tragedy: The Mutilated (2013)
Small Craft Warnings (2016)
Some Problems for the Moose Lodge (2018)
Something Cloudy, Something Clear (2011, 2024)
Something Unspoken (dance adaptation 2014)
Steps Must Be Gentle (2018)
Suddenly Last Summer (staged reading 2010, 2015, 2024)
Summer and Smoke (opera scenes 2008, Portuguese adaptation 2011)
Summer at the Lake (2010)
Sunburst (2007 World Premiere; 2011)
Sweet Bird of Youth (2017)
Talisman Roses (2018 World Premiere)
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen (2009, 2017)
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (2012, 2017)
Thank You, Kind Spirit (2009)
The Case of the Crushed Petunias (2009, musical adaptation 2015)
The Chalky White Substance (2007, 2023)
The Dark Room (Italian adaptation 2012)
The Day on Which a Man Dies (2009, 2015)
The Demolition Downtown (2007, 2021)
The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View (2008 World Premiere)
The Enemy: Time (2009 World Premiere)
The Frosted Glass Coffin (2025)
The Glass Menagerie (2006, 2012, 2024)
The Gnadiges Fraulein (2007, 2017)
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (2009)
The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers (2019 World Premiere)
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches (2009)
The Magic Tower (2022)
The Men from the Polar Star (2023)
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (2013, 2015)
The Municipal Abattoir (2007, 2020, 2021)
The Night of the Iguana (2019)
The Notebook of Trigorin (adaptation 2007)
The One Exception (2007)
The Parade, or Approaching the End of Summer (2006 World Premiere, 2007, 2011, 2015)
The Pink Bedroom (2009)
The Pronoun “I” (2007 World Premiere, 2023)
The Red Devil Battery Sign (2006 documentary film)
The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde (2009 World Premiere, 2015)
The Rose Tattoo (2018)
The Strangest Kind of Romance (2009)
The Strange Play (2023)
The Traveling Companion (2007, 2011)
The Two-Character Play (2011, 2025)
The Unsatisfactory Supper (2006, Italian adaptation 2012)
This is the Peaceable Kingdom (2022)
This Property Is Condemned (2006, Italian adaptation 2012, 2025)
Vieux Carré (2014, 2022)
Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily? (dance adaptation 2014)
Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? (2018)
Adapted works:
“Chronicle of a Demise” (short story adaptation by Brenna Geffers, 2023)
“Fin du Monde” (short story adaptation by Davis Robinson, 2025)
Gift of an Apple (adaptation of Williams’ poetry by Charlene Donaghy, 2012)
“Happy August the Tenth” (dance adaptation by Paula Frasz, 2008)
“Mother Yaws” (short story adaptation by David Kaplan and Brenda Currin, 2020)
“One Arm” (short story adaptation by Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer, 2022)
“Stair to the Roof” (adapted as Flight by Kari Margolis, 2024)
“The Angel in the Alcove” (short story adaptation by Anthoullis Demosthenous, 2019)
“The Eye that Saw Death” (short story adaptation by Jennifer Restak, 2023)
“The Knightly Quest” (short story adaptation by Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer, 2023)
“The Mattress by the Tomato Patch (adapted by John Guare as More Stars Than There Are in Heaven staged reading, 2015)
The Road to Paradise (dance adaptation of TW poetry and letters by Carson Efird, 2007, 2015)
The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer (musical settings of TW poetry by David Landon, 2006, 2007)
“The Vengeance of Nitocris” (short story adaptation by Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer, 2023)
“Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor? ” (short story adaptation by Tom Mitchell, 2021)
also
“Miss Coynte of Greene (adapted by David Kaplan, staged reading, 2011)
“The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen (adapted by David Kaplan, staged reading, 2011)