Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2010
Number 11
Founded in 1998, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review remains the only journal devoted to the works, worldwide influence, and cultural context of one of the most pivotal playwrights of the 20th century. Many issues showcase a previously unpublished work by Williams.
In this issue
The 2010 issue of the Review includes theater and book reviews, an assessment of the playwright’s reputation in Sweden, scholarly essays on two late plays—Kirche, Küche, und Kinder and The Gnädiges Fräulein—and a never-before-published one-act version of Vieux Carré.
Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2010
Number 11
HNOC 2010
softcover • 6" × 9" • 98 pp.
4 color images, 1 b&w image
ISSN 1097-6035
$15.00
Table of Contents
A Reading of The Reading
The journal’s editor lists various similarities and differences between the previously unpublished 1971 one-act play The Reading and its later, longer incarnation, Vieux Carré. Biographical context is provided, including the fact that Williams fired his longtime agent, Audrey Wood, in 1971.
The Reading
The first-time publication of The Reading, Tennessee Williams’s one-act play-within-a-play written in 1971, in which two actor characters—Jane and Tye, who will appear again in Williams’s play Vieux Carré—audition for roles. Available in print edition only.
Torn between the “Swedish Sin” and “Homosexual Freemasonry”: Tennessee Williams, Sexual Morals, and the Closet in 1950s Sweden
“The Wilderness is Interior”: Williams’s Strategies of Resistance in “Two on a Party”
The Gnädiges Fräulein: Tennessee Williams’s Southernmost Belle
An Interview with Douglas McKeown on the Production of Kirche, Küche, und Kinder, 1979
Interview with Douglas McKeown, set and costume designer for the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater during its 1979 world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s play Kirche, Küche, und Kinder, directed by Eve Adamson at the Bouwerie Lane Theater in New York City.
Vieux Carré, directed by Austin Pendleton
Review of Vieux Carré, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Austin Pendleton, Pearl Theatre Company, 12 May–14 June 2009, Theater 80 St. Mark’s, New York.
Recent Releases
Williams, Tennessee. A House Not Meant to Stand. Edited by Thomas Keith. New Directions, 2008.
Williams, Tennessee. The Traveling Companion and Other Plays. Ed. Annette Saddik. New Directions, 2008.
Williams, Tennessee. New Selected Essays: Where I Live. Edited by John S. Bak. New Directions, 2009.
Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New edition, introduced by John Guare, with an essay by Michael Paller. New Directions, 2008.
Williams, Tennessee. Sweet Bird of Youth. New edition, introduced by Lanford Wilson, with an essay by Colby H. Kullman. New Directions, 2008.
Williams, Tennessee. The Night of the Iguana. New edition, introduced by Doug Wright, with an essay by Kenneth Holditch. New Directions, 2009.
Contributors
Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde
Robert Bray
Dirk Gindt
Thomas Keith
Philip C. Kolin
Nick Moschovakis
Stefanie Quinlan
Tennessee Williams Studies
HNOC is one of four main repositories of the playwright’s work. We produce an annual scholarly journal and conference devoted to Williams, among other research tools, articles, and exhibitions.
