{"id":7081,"date":"2007-09-27T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2010-07-18T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:49:09","slug":"tennessee-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting today and running through the 30th, up in Provincetown, is the yearly Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival<\/a>. This year’s festival will focus on Williams’ less-successful but no less interesting later work.<\/p>\n

David Kaplan, the artistic curator of the festival, and author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown<\/a><\/i>, contacted me and asked me to write something on Camino Real<\/i> for the festival catalog – which I happily did. (Speaking of favorite passages in literature – in the post below about Howards End<\/i> – the Camino Real<\/i> script has my favorite of all Williams’ lines: “Make voyages — attempt them! — there’s nothing else.”)<\/p>\n

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!!<\/p>\n

Check out the schedule of events<\/a> this year! Drool! Best of luck to all the actors and directors and organizers – I am sure the festival will be a huge success!<\/p>\n

“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.” <\/p>\n

— Tennessee Williams, letter to Lawrence Langner, August 22, 1940<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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