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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival

Posted on September 27, 2007 by sheila

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, … Continue reading →

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The Kindness of Strangers

Posted on May 30, 2007 by sheila

Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933

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“I hereby formally bequeath to you …”

Posted on May 30, 2007 by sheila

I hereby formally bequeath you to the female vagina, which vortex will inevitably receive you with or without my permission. — Tennessee Williams, letter to Kip Kiernan – a man he loved who just left him for a woman, August … Continue reading →

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“Rose.”

Posted on May 30, 2007 by sheila

A cord breaking. 1000 miles away. Rose. Her head cut open. A knife thrust in her brain. Me. Here. Smoking. — Tennessee Williams, journal entry, Marcy 24, 1943

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“the wild, passionate and dissolute type of genius”

Posted on May 30, 2007 by sheila

I have been reading a good number of biographies this year which I am sure you will commend. Probably you remember how I picked up that volume of Ludwig’s Napoleon on the boat and liked it so well that the … Continue reading →

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“simple, direct and terrible”

Posted on May 24, 2007 by sheila

From the personal notebooks of Tennessee Williams (he just won a play contest, sponsored by the Group Theatre – he is not famous yet): My next play will be simple, direct and terrible – a picture of my own heart … Continue reading →

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Overwhelming book deliveries

Posted on March 8, 2007 by sheila

The Amazon logo smiling at me repeatedly. Something about unwrapping books makes my heartbeat quicken. I just don’t even know where to begin. I finished Blue Blood – the book by Edward Conlon, NYC detective and Harvard graduate. Dude can … Continue reading →

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Fall 1995: Acting Notebook

Posted on January 31, 2007 by sheila

Going through all these old notebooks – I came across the notebooks I kept during grad school. At first they start out all work, no play … which is interesting in and of itself – but the notebooks I kept … Continue reading →

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Говори со мной, словно дождь, и не мешай слушать

Posted on June 26, 2006 by sheila

Check this out – I saw this in my referral log and went to check it out. I have no idea but that looks like Russian to me? Again, no idea. When I saw it, I thought – hmmm, wonder … Continue reading →

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“Oooooooooooh!”

Posted on February 1, 2006 by sheila

In a Greek play it’s not that there is a peculiar kind of delivery, it is that somebody’s pain is so great that they cry out: “Oooooooooooh!” rather than “Oh!” … The feeling should be exaggerated in order to meet … Continue reading →

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