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The Strangest Kind of Romance

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 3m

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 3m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

The proprietress of a boarding house is giving a tour to a potential tenant who hopes to get a job in the nearby factory. All the men who have lived there have signed their names on the wall – and one of them left his cat behind. After moving in, the man develops a sort of relationship with the landlady, but his real romance is with the cat.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

THE LITTLE MAN
THE LANDLADY
THE OLD MAN - her father-in-law
THE BOXER
NITCHEVO - the cat
  • Setting A furnished room in a small industrial city of the middle-western states.
  • Duration 30 minutes

Media


The Strangest Kind of Romance was read on Playing on Air with Claudia Cantina on January 7, 2015. Purchase the podcast episode and listen to the trailer here.

 

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Authors

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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