Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

â€œThe peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act playsâ€”like firecrackers in a rope.â€ â€”Tennessee Williams

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williamsâ€™s most potent, comical and disturbingÂ shortÂ plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse inÂ Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, whileÂ the poet Hart Crane is confronted by hisÂ mother at the bottom of the ocean inÂ Steps Must Be Gentle.Â Five previously unpublished plays includeÂ A Recluse and His Guest,Â andÂ The Strange Play,Â in which we witness a womanâ€™s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-12
Format Kindle eBook

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