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List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

Index List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams

This is a list of the one-act plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. [1]

69 relations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Antaeus (magazine), Auto-da-Fé (play), Autobiography, Baby Doll, Broadway theatre, Camino Real (play), Columbia, Missouri, Community theatre, D. H. Lawrence, Didacticism, Donald Spoto, Dramatists Play Service, Elia Kazan, Frieda Lawrence, Garden District, New Orleans, Hartford, Connecticut, Hell, Homosexuality, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Incest, James Purdy, Jessica Tandy, John Lahr, Kim Stanley, Kinder, Küche, Kirche, Library of America, Longacre Theatre, Man, Mardi Gras, Memphis, Tennessee, Miami, Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Monologue, Natalie Wood, New Directions Publishing, New York City Center, Oceania, Off-Broadway, One-act play, Prostitution, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Robert Redford, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Small Craft Warnings, Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Southwark Playhouse, St. Louis, ..., Surrealism, Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams, The Daily Telegraph, The Glass Menagerie, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rose Tattoo, This Property Is Condemned, United States, University of Missouri, Verse drama and dramatic verse, Victorian morality, West Coast of the United States, Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?, William Redfield (actor), Woman, 1944 in literature, 1966 in film. Expand index (19 more) »

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.

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Antaeus (magazine)

Antaeus was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles and edited by Daniel Halpern.

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Auto-da-Fé (play)

Auto-da-Fé is a one-act 1941 play by Tennessee Williams.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Baby Doll

Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Camino Real (play)

Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams.

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Columbia, Missouri

Columbia is a city in Missouri and the county seat of Boone County.

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Community theatre

Community theatre refers to theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities—its usage includes theatre made by, with, and for a community.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.

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Donald Spoto

Donald Spoto (born June 28, 1941) is an American biographer and theologian.

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Dramatists Play Service

Established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Authors' Representatives, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (a.k.a. DPS and The Play Service) is a theatrical-publishing and licensing house.

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Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".

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Frieda Lawrence

Frieda Lawrence (August 11, 1879 – August 11, 1956), born Frieda Freiin von Richthofen, was a German literary figure mainly known for her marriage to the British novelist D. H. Lawrence.

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Garden District, New Orleans

The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Hell

Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel is a 1969 play by Tennessee Williams.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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James Purdy

James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays.

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Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress.

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John Lahr

John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr.

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Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.

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Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Kinder, Küche, Kirche, or the 3 Ks, is a German slogan translated as “children, kitchen, church”.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Longacre Theatre

The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 220 West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

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Man

A man is a male human.

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Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday (known as Shrove Tuesday).

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Midtown, Memphis, Tennessee

Midtown Memphis, Tennessee is a collection of neighborhoods to the east of Downtown.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.

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Monologue

In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

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Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.

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New Directions Publishing

New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.

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New York City Center

New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,. The name "City Center for Music and Drama Inc." is the organizational parent of the New York City Ballet and, until 2011, the New York City Opera. and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater,White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot; AIA Guide to New York City, 4th Edition; New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Crown Publishers/Random House. 2000.;. p.267.) is a 2,257-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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One-act play

A one-act play is a play that has only one act, as distinct from plays that occur over several acts.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist.

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Shakespeare Theatre Company

The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. The theatre company focuses primarily on plays from the Shakespeare canon, but its seasons include works by other classic playwrights such as Euripides, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Schiller, Coward and Tennessee Williams.

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Small Craft Warnings

Small Craft Warnings is a play by Tennessee Williams, an expansion of an earlier one-act play, Confessional, that was included in the Williams Dragon Country compilation of 1970.

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Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear is an autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written in 1941 as a short play titled The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer, which was produced posthumously in Provincetown in 2006.

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Southwark Playhouse

Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations.

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St. Louis

St.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play.

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This Property Is Condemned

This Property Is Condemned is a 1966 American drama film starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson, Robert Blake, and Mary Badham, and directed by Sydney Pollack.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

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Verse drama and dramatic verse

Verse drama is any drama written as verse to be spoken; another possible general term is poetic drama.

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Victorian morality

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living during the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), the Victorian era, and of the moral climate of Great Britain in the mid-19th century in general.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?

Will Mr.

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William Redfield (actor)

William Redfield (January 26, 1927 – August 17, 1976) was an American actor and author who appeared in numerous theatrical, film, radio, and television roles.

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Woman

A woman is an adult female human being.

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1944 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1944.

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1966 in film

The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.

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27 Wagons Full of Cotton, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, Adam and Eve on a Ferry, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, At Liberty, Auto Da Fe (play), Auto Da Fé (play), Beauty Is the Word, Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay!, Dragon Country, Garden District (play), Garden District (plays), Grand (play), Hello from Bertha, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix, Kirche, Kuche und Kinder, Kirche, Kŭche und Kinder, Lifeboat Drill, Lord Byron's Love Letter, Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays, Moony's Kid Don't Cry, Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws, One act plays by Tennessee Williams, One act plays by tennessee williams, Portrait of a Madonna, Something Unspoken, Steps Must be Gentle, Summer at the Lake, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, The Chalky White Substance, The Dark Room (play), The Demolition Downtown, The Fat Man's Wife, The Frosted Glass Coffin, The Gnadiges Fraulein, The Gnaediges Fraeulein, The Gnädiges Fräulein, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, The Long Goodbye (Play), The Long Goodbye (play), The Magic Tower, The Mutilated, The One Exception, The Palooka, The Purification, The Strangest Kind of Romance, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VI, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VII, This Is Peaceable Kingdom or Good Luck God, Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-act_plays_by_Tennessee_Williams

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