ISBN 978-0-8112-1920-4

Tennessee Williams

12 previously uncollected one-act plays:

Please note, Samuel French, Inc. does not license amateur performance rights for these titles: The Case of the Crushed Petunias, Moony's Kid Don't Cry and The Dark Room. You must contact the acting edition publisher of these titles to secure amateur performance rights.

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope”
(Tennessee Williams)

Here are portraits of American life during the Great Depression and after, populated by a hopelessly hopeful chorus girl, a munitions manufacturer ensnared in a love triangle, a rural family that deals “justice” on its children, an overconfident mob dandy, a poor couple who quarrel to vanquish despair, a young “spinster” enthralled by the impulse of rebellion, and, in “The Magic Tower,” a passionate artist and his wife whose youth and optimism are not enough to protect their “dream marriage.” This new volume gathers some of Williams’s most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: “The Pretty Trap,” a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and “Interior: Panic,” a stunning precursor to A Streetcar Named Desire.