Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams
Translator: So-im Kim
Publisher: Minumsa
356 pages | 224*131mm
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About This Book
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof---
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its
gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's
inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of
Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality
repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the
public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and
the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often
did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the
present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare
Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare
the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in
the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams'
essay "Person-to-Person," Williams' notes on the various endings, and a
short chronology of the author's life.
One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and
colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction
to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor,
sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.
The Glass Menagerie---
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and
heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass
Menagerie. Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched
the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent
lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the
legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the
bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward,
and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the
world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is
now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new
introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The
Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a
century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than
fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a
triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still
resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie
also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a
struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short
section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the
classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New
Directions edition.
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