Starting today and running through the 30th, up in Provincetown, is the yearly Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival. This year’s festival will focus on Williams’ less-successful but no less interesting later work.
David Kaplan, the artistic curator of the festival, and author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, contacted me and asked me to write something on Camino Real for the festival catalog – which I happily did. (Speaking of favorite passages in literature – in the post below about Howards End – the Camino Real script has my favorite of all Williams’ lines: “Make voyages — attempt them! — there’s nothing else.”)
I was thrilled to be asked to write something, and thrilled to be, in some small way, a part of the festival – which someday, dernit, I will get to!! Next year, perhaps!!
Check out the schedule of events this year! Drool! Best of luck to all the actors and directors and organizers – I am sure the festival will be a huge success!
“My emotionalism is much too great for my intellectual capacity, it is like having 16 cylinders in a jalopy. Ultimately this will lead to complete disaster, but let us hope that evil day is postponed until I have completed my stint of creative work in the world.”
— Tennessee Williams, letter to Lawrence Langner, August 22, 1940
where can we read ur piece???
I’ll send you a copy, mi-too!! It’s not online – just in the catalog itself. Pretty cool, huh? I LOVE Camino Real!! “The violets have broken thru the rock!”
its really cool!!! im so proud of u!