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Green Eyes, or No Sight Would Be Worth Seeing

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 2m

A young couple spending their honeymoon in a hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter wake up one morning to find the "girl's" body covered with mysterious bruises.

Green Eyes, or No Sight Would Be Worth Seeing

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

A young couple spending their honeymoon in a hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter wake up one morning to find the "girl's" body covered with mysterious bruises. The "boy;' on a short leave from serving in Vietnam, is enraged and blinded with jealously. As they fight - over her evasiveness, his courage or cowardice in war, their fears and expectations for a life together - it becomes clear that the bruises are no mystery at all.

A part of the collection The Traveling Companion and Other Plays.

History

Green Eyes, or No Sight Would Be Worth Seeing premiered at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in Provincetown, MA in September 2008 under the direction of Jeff Hall-Flavin.

BOY
GIRL
A WAITER
  • Setting A New Orleans hotel room.
  • Duration 30 minutes

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  • Minimum Fee: $75 per performance

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Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “ ...
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