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Kerr, in the NY Herald-Tribune, describes: "This, says Mr. Williams through the most sympathetic voice among his characters, 'is a true story about the time and the world we live in.' He has made it seem true-or at least curiously and suspensefully possible-by the extraordinary skill with which he has wrung detail after detail out of a young woman who has lived with horror. Anne Meacham, as a girl who has been the sole witness to her cousin's unbelievably shocking death, is brought into a 'planned jungle' of a New Orleans garden to confront a family that is intensely interested in having her deny the lurid tale she has told. The post-dilettante's mother is, indeed, so ruthlessly eager to suppress the facts that she had the girl incarcerated in a mental institution and she is perfectly willing, once she finishes her ritualistic five o'clock frozen daiquiri, to order the performance of a frontal lobotomy. A nun stands in rigid attendance; a doctor prepares a hypodermic to force the truth; greedy relatives beg her to recant in return for solid cash. Under the assorted, and thoroughly fascinating, pressures that are brought to bear, and under the intolerable, stammering strain of reliving her own memories, Miss Meacham slowly, painfully, hypnotically paints a concrete and blistering portrait of loneliness.of the sudden snapping of that spider's web that is one man's life, of ultimate panic and futile flight. The very reluctance with which the grim, hopeless narrative is unfolded binds us to it; Mr. Williams threads it out with a spare, sure, sharply vivid control of language.and the spell is cast."
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Tennessee Williams
657听books3,556听followersThomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.
Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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December 22, 2020
Suddenly, last summer, a son that is dead. Suddenly, last summer, a niece off her head. So she locks her up and throws away the key, but this summer opts for a lobotomy instead. Since her niece, it appears, just won't shut up, about her son and his all-too-shocking hookups. It hurts to lose a son, no-one can argue that, but what hurts more is to be made runner-up.
October 16, 2019
螢伪蠁谓喂魏维 蟺苇蟻蟽喂 蟿慰 魏伪位慰魏伪委蟻喂 萎 伪位位喂蠋蟼 蟺蠋蟼 谓伪 魏维谓蔚蟿蔚 苇谓伪 胃蔚伪蟿蟻喂魏蠈 苇蟻纬慰 谓伪 渭慰喂维味蔚喂 渭蔚 胃蟻委位蔚蟻.
危魏慰蟿蔚喂谓蠈.. 螒谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈.. 螝位蔚喂蟽蟿慰蠁慰尾喂魏蠈..
螚 蟺位慰魏萎 蟿慰蟺慰胃蔚蟿蔚委蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 苇谓伪谓 维纬蟻喂慰 魏萎蟺慰 渭蔚 蟽伪蟻魏慰尾蠈蟻伪 蠁蠀蟿维.
螝伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈位伪 蔚未蠋. 危蠀渭尾慰位喂蟽渭慰委, 慰渭慰蠁蠀位慰蠁喂位委伪, 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蠁伪纬委伪, 螣喂未喂蟺蠈未蔚喂伪 蟽蠀渭蟺位苇纬渭伪蟿伪, 位慰尾慰蟿慰渭苇蟼, 蠂慰蟻畏纬委蔚蟼, 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏萎 伪谓喂蟽蠈蟿畏蟿伪, 蠀蟺慰魏蟻喂蟽委伪 蟿畏蟼 伪渭蔚蟻喂魏维谓喂魏畏蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪蟼, 蟽蠀谓蟿畏蟻畏蟿喂蟽渭蠈蟼. 危蟿伪 蠂苇蟻喂伪 蠈蟺慰喂慰蠀 维位位慰蠀 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 渭委纬渭伪 胃伪 苇渭慰喂伪味蔚 胃蔚伪蟿蟻喂魏萎 蟽蟺位伪蟿蔚蟻喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蔚蠉魏慰位伪 胃伪 维纬纬喂味蔚 蟿伪 蠈蟻喂伪 蟿慰蠀 纬蔚位慰委慰蠀.
螣 Williams 尾慰蠀蟿维蔚喂 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 未伪委渭慰谓苇蟼 蟿慰蠀 (蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 苇蠂蔚喂 苇谓蟿慰谓伪 伪蠀蟿慰尾喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏维 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委伪 魏伪喂 纬蟻维蠁蔚蟿伪喂 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 渭喂伪 渭伪魏蟻维 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蠄蠀蠂伪谓维位蠀蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪) 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟺伪蟻伪未委未蔚喂 苇谓伪 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈 苇蟻纬慰 渭蔚 未蠀慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿喂蟼 蟺喂慰 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委蔚蟼 畏蟻蠅委未蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 胃蔚伪蟿蟻喂魏萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 蔚蟻纬慰纬蟻伪蠁委伪蟼.
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏!
危魏慰蟿蔚喂谓蠈.. 螒谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈.. 螝位蔚喂蟽蟿慰蠁慰尾喂魏蠈..
螚 蟺位慰魏萎 蟿慰蟺慰胃蔚蟿蔚委蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 苇谓伪谓 维纬蟻喂慰 魏萎蟺慰 渭蔚 蟽伪蟻魏慰尾蠈蟻伪 蠁蠀蟿维.
螝伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈位伪 蔚未蠋. 危蠀渭尾慰位喂蟽渭慰委, 慰渭慰蠁蠀位慰蠁喂位委伪, 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蠁伪纬委伪, 螣喂未喂蟺蠈未蔚喂伪 蟽蠀渭蟺位苇纬渭伪蟿伪, 位慰尾慰蟿慰渭苇蟼, 蠂慰蟻畏纬委蔚蟼, 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏萎 伪谓喂蟽蠈蟿畏蟿伪, 蠀蟺慰魏蟻喂蟽委伪 蟿畏蟼 伪渭蔚蟻喂魏维谓喂魏畏蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪蟼, 蟽蠀谓蟿畏蟻畏蟿喂蟽渭蠈蟼. 危蟿伪 蠂苇蟻喂伪 蠈蟺慰喂慰蠀 维位位慰蠀 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 渭委纬渭伪 胃伪 苇渭慰喂伪味蔚 胃蔚伪蟿蟻喂魏萎 蟽蟺位伪蟿蔚蟻喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蔚蠉魏慰位伪 胃伪 维纬纬喂味蔚 蟿伪 蠈蟻喂伪 蟿慰蠀 纬蔚位慰委慰蠀.
螣 Williams 尾慰蠀蟿维蔚喂 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 未伪委渭慰谓苇蟼 蟿慰蠀 (蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 苇蠂蔚喂 苇谓蟿慰谓伪 伪蠀蟿慰尾喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏维 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委伪 魏伪喂 纬蟻维蠁蔚蟿伪喂 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 渭喂伪 渭伪魏蟻维 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蠄蠀蠂伪谓维位蠀蟽畏蟼 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪) 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟺伪蟻伪未委未蔚喂 苇谓伪 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈 苇蟻纬慰 渭蔚 未蠀慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿喂蟼 蟺喂慰 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委蔚蟼 畏蟻蠅委未蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 胃蔚伪蟿蟻喂魏萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 蔚蟻纬慰纬蟻伪蠁委伪蟼.
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏!
October 28, 2024
Suddenly Last Summer
Tennessee Williams' short play "Suddenly Last Summer" is both beautiful and lurid. The play was first presented off-Broadway in 1959 together with another short work. The play consists of one act in four scenes and is usually presented without intermission. It is best read in a single sitting to capture the drama's cumulative effect.
The play explores loneliness, the ways in which people abuse and destroy one another, and the difficulties of looking below the surface of one's actions. The lurid components of the play center on a depiction of cannibalism, with homosexuality involving young boys and incest also playing large roles. The play is set in 1936 in a large, ornate Victorian mansion in New Orleans with an extensive garden that resembles a tropical jungle. A prominent and symbolic feature of the garden is a large carnivorous plant, a Venus flytrap. The two primary characters are the mansion's owner, an elderly, strong-willed, and ill widow, Mrs. Venable, and her niece from a much poorer part of the family on her husband's side, Catharine Holly. A psychiatrist, Dr. Cukrowicz, known as Dr. Sugar for short, also plays an important role.
In its lyricism and control of language, "Suddenly Last Summer" is as much a poem as a drama. The action of the play surrounds two lengthy monologues, the first delivered by Mrs Venable at the play's beginning and the second given by Catharine at the conclusion. The character who never appears on stage is Mrs. Venable's son, Sebastian, who dies under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40. At the time of his death, Sebastian was travelling with Catharine and Mrs. Venable suspects her of complicity in the death. Catharine has been telling a shocking story about the death, which only comes out at the end of the play, and Mrs. Venable has had her committed to an insane asylum run by Catholic sisters. She wants to have a lobotomy performed on Catharine and has invited the Doctor, a pioneer of the new operation, to the mansion.to examine the prospective patient with the lure of a large research grant if he agrees to perform the surgery.
Mrs. Venable tells the story of a Sebastian who was reclusive, sensitive, chaste, and a poet who wrote one poem every summer and traveled in the company of his mother. When Mrs Venable suffered a stroke, Sebastian invited Catharine, a party girl who had been taken advantage of by a married man, to accompany him. Catharine had been depressed before the trip as a result of her own experiences. When she returns she appears most distraught by her experience with Sebastian and by her subsequent confinement. Mrs. Venable wants to silence Catharine from telling her story.
The play builds up to Catharine's final monologue, delivered under a truth serum administered by the doctor, in which she explains how she and Mrs. Venable before her had served as a procurer of young boys for Sebastian. While she and Sebastian were travelling in the West Indies, Sebastian met his grisly fate when he was cannibalized by a large group of poor young African American boys many of whom he had victimized. The revelation comes at the climactic moment at the end of the play, and all the action and symbolism of the brief work inexorably prepares for it.
The play has a strongly spiritual component amid the gruesomeness with the many incidents of cruelty in the human and natural world juxtaposed against the mystery of God and goodness. The nun who accompanies Catharine from the asylum, the psychiatrist, and Sebastian each add a religious dimension to the work. Catherine quotes Sebastian saying to her at one point in their trip: "Somebody said once or wrote, once: "We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!'" Many readers see the influence of Euripides "Bacchae" in Williams' taut and provocative play.
"Suddenly Last Summer" has a strong autobiographical component. Throughout his life, Williams was plagued by guilt over a lobotomy performed on his sister in the early 1940s. When he wrote the play, Williams had begun seeing a psychiatrist. Williams' Dr. Sugar is a difficult character to assess and to perform in the play. He is better seen as an active participant rather than as an observer of the drama. Williams' own psychiatrist remarked that "of the many portrayals of the role of the psychiatrist that I have seen on stage and film, this rang truest. It has a quality of thoughtful, unpretentious, competence of responsibility and humanity. And he did not have bed-side manner oozing out of every pore." The play can be understood without knowing anything of William's life as a portrayal of the harshness of the human condition even in the middle of the search for beauty and love.
This play is available separately and in the second of the two volume of the Library of America compilation of Williams' plays. John Lahr has recently written an outstanding biography of Williams, "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" which discusses "Suddenly Last Summer" among many other Williams works. The quotation from Williams' psychiatrist is taken from Lahr's book.
Robin Friedman
Tennessee Williams' short play "Suddenly Last Summer" is both beautiful and lurid. The play was first presented off-Broadway in 1959 together with another short work. The play consists of one act in four scenes and is usually presented without intermission. It is best read in a single sitting to capture the drama's cumulative effect.
The play explores loneliness, the ways in which people abuse and destroy one another, and the difficulties of looking below the surface of one's actions. The lurid components of the play center on a depiction of cannibalism, with homosexuality involving young boys and incest also playing large roles. The play is set in 1936 in a large, ornate Victorian mansion in New Orleans with an extensive garden that resembles a tropical jungle. A prominent and symbolic feature of the garden is a large carnivorous plant, a Venus flytrap. The two primary characters are the mansion's owner, an elderly, strong-willed, and ill widow, Mrs. Venable, and her niece from a much poorer part of the family on her husband's side, Catharine Holly. A psychiatrist, Dr. Cukrowicz, known as Dr. Sugar for short, also plays an important role.
In its lyricism and control of language, "Suddenly Last Summer" is as much a poem as a drama. The action of the play surrounds two lengthy monologues, the first delivered by Mrs Venable at the play's beginning and the second given by Catharine at the conclusion. The character who never appears on stage is Mrs. Venable's son, Sebastian, who dies under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40. At the time of his death, Sebastian was travelling with Catharine and Mrs. Venable suspects her of complicity in the death. Catharine has been telling a shocking story about the death, which only comes out at the end of the play, and Mrs. Venable has had her committed to an insane asylum run by Catholic sisters. She wants to have a lobotomy performed on Catharine and has invited the Doctor, a pioneer of the new operation, to the mansion.to examine the prospective patient with the lure of a large research grant if he agrees to perform the surgery.
Mrs. Venable tells the story of a Sebastian who was reclusive, sensitive, chaste, and a poet who wrote one poem every summer and traveled in the company of his mother. When Mrs Venable suffered a stroke, Sebastian invited Catharine, a party girl who had been taken advantage of by a married man, to accompany him. Catharine had been depressed before the trip as a result of her own experiences. When she returns she appears most distraught by her experience with Sebastian and by her subsequent confinement. Mrs. Venable wants to silence Catharine from telling her story.
The play builds up to Catharine's final monologue, delivered under a truth serum administered by the doctor, in which she explains how she and Mrs. Venable before her had served as a procurer of young boys for Sebastian. While she and Sebastian were travelling in the West Indies, Sebastian met his grisly fate when he was cannibalized by a large group of poor young African American boys many of whom he had victimized. The revelation comes at the climactic moment at the end of the play, and all the action and symbolism of the brief work inexorably prepares for it.
The play has a strongly spiritual component amid the gruesomeness with the many incidents of cruelty in the human and natural world juxtaposed against the mystery of God and goodness. The nun who accompanies Catharine from the asylum, the psychiatrist, and Sebastian each add a religious dimension to the work. Catherine quotes Sebastian saying to her at one point in their trip: "Somebody said once or wrote, once: "We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!'" Many readers see the influence of Euripides "Bacchae" in Williams' taut and provocative play.
"Suddenly Last Summer" has a strong autobiographical component. Throughout his life, Williams was plagued by guilt over a lobotomy performed on his sister in the early 1940s. When he wrote the play, Williams had begun seeing a psychiatrist. Williams' Dr. Sugar is a difficult character to assess and to perform in the play. He is better seen as an active participant rather than as an observer of the drama. Williams' own psychiatrist remarked that "of the many portrayals of the role of the psychiatrist that I have seen on stage and film, this rang truest. It has a quality of thoughtful, unpretentious, competence of responsibility and humanity. And he did not have bed-side manner oozing out of every pore." The play can be understood without knowing anything of William's life as a portrayal of the harshness of the human condition even in the middle of the search for beauty and love.
This play is available separately and in the second of the two volume of the Library of America compilation of Williams' plays. John Lahr has recently written an outstanding biography of Williams, "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" which discusses "Suddenly Last Summer" among many other Williams works. The quotation from Williams' psychiatrist is taken from Lahr's book.
Robin Friedman
October 26, 2013
This one act play is set at Mrs Venable's house where her deceased son, Sebastian, had a jungle-garden, including carnivorous plants. Sounds of savage beasts and birds add to the mood. Mrs Venable is trying to discredit the testimony of Catherine, her niece, about her last day with Sebastian. She is trying to persuade a doctor to perform a lobotomy on her niece so Catherine will never be able to speak about the events to Mrs Venable's high society friends in New Orleans. After the doctor gives Catherine the truth serum, she tells the story about her cousin, a homosexual poet who met a horrible death in Cabeza de Lobo.
Tennessee Williams had started psycholanalysis when he was writing the play. His mother had insisted that his disturbed sister Rose undergo a lobotomy. Williams often uses events from the lives of members of his family in his plays. This play sent chills through me, reading how society, greedy relatives, and mental health professionals of the 1950s could treat a traumatized young woman.
Tennessee Williams had started psycholanalysis when he was writing the play. His mother had insisted that his disturbed sister Rose undergo a lobotomy. Williams often uses events from the lives of members of his family in his plays. This play sent chills through me, reading how society, greedy relatives, and mental health professionals of the 1950s could treat a traumatized young woman.
August 1, 2019
Well god damn.
What a powerful one act play. Los Olvidados have the last laugh as playboy poet walks on the wild side. The waning witness is left with a song from the Ramones.
I loved the pacing, the creak of device and the eruptions of madness. I think a few scenes revealing the interior life of the doctor would鈥檝e heightened matters.
What a powerful one act play. Los Olvidados have the last laugh as playboy poet walks on the wild side. The waning witness is left with a song from the Ramones.
I loved the pacing, the creak of device and the eruptions of madness. I think a few scenes revealing the interior life of the doctor would鈥檝e heightened matters.
August 7, 2020
Pertenezco a una generaci贸n que pudo ver en la tv muchas de las adaptaciones de la obra de Tennessee Williams. Sin haber le铆do los libros ni estar preparados, cualquier fin de semana te sumerg铆as en la desesperaci贸n de Williams, en la mirada esquizofr茅nica de Elizabeth Taylor o en la profunda locura de Marlon Brando, a pelo.
Pero, no voy a empezar con discursos rancios sobre si lo de antes era mejor o no; porque ahora, con un chasquido de mis dedos cual capit谩n Wade Hunnicutt, puedo ver cuando quiera cualquier adaptaci贸n de la obra de Williams y no tengo que esperar a que la pongan en la tele. As铆 que, cada cual que elija lo que prefiera.
Respecto al libro, me ha gustado mucho aunque ni es bonito ni agradable, pero contiene toda la locura y la enfermedad que puede engendrar el ser humano y cuyo epicentro es la familia; s铆, la familia como origen de todas las neurosis y de la maldad. La locura reflejada en ese amor malsano de una madre por un hijo que permite que 茅ste haga lo que quiera y d茅 rienda suelta a su apetito sexual. La familia, madre y hermano de Catherine, como buitres carro帽eros revoloteando alrededor del dinero que quieren picotear. Catherine, imagen de la hermana de Williams, tan bella como loca y utilizada como se帽uelo sexual por el protagonista.
Todo huele mal en esta obra, nada se salva: enfermedad, locura, perversi贸n, pedofilia.. y todo con un final donde asistimos a la 煤nica sublimaci贸n posible del protagonista.
Una lectura para tardes asfixiantes de verano.
Pero, no voy a empezar con discursos rancios sobre si lo de antes era mejor o no; porque ahora, con un chasquido de mis dedos cual capit谩n Wade Hunnicutt, puedo ver cuando quiera cualquier adaptaci贸n de la obra de Williams y no tengo que esperar a que la pongan en la tele. As铆 que, cada cual que elija lo que prefiera.
Respecto al libro, me ha gustado mucho aunque ni es bonito ni agradable, pero contiene toda la locura y la enfermedad que puede engendrar el ser humano y cuyo epicentro es la familia; s铆, la familia como origen de todas las neurosis y de la maldad. La locura reflejada en ese amor malsano de una madre por un hijo que permite que 茅ste haga lo que quiera y d茅 rienda suelta a su apetito sexual. La familia, madre y hermano de Catherine, como buitres carro帽eros revoloteando alrededor del dinero que quieren picotear. Catherine, imagen de la hermana de Williams, tan bella como loca y utilizada como se帽uelo sexual por el protagonista.
Todo huele mal en esta obra, nada se salva: enfermedad, locura, perversi贸n, pedofilia.. y todo con un final donde asistimos a la 煤nica sublimaci贸n posible del protagonista.
Una lectura para tardes asfixiantes de verano.
August 5, 2020
Una obra corta pero poderosa, obra de suspenso. El teatro en texto no es lo mio la vdd, se lee rapido, es cortito, me gust贸 la descripci贸n de escenograf铆a y actores saliendo entre actos :)
June 30, 2020
I just thought it was okay. I was confused on certain parts and was in love with others.
December 31, 2020
Ne sumnjam da je film maestralan, radujem mu se unapred.
Montgomeri Klift, Elizabet Tejlor i Ketrin Hepburn - ne mo啪e bolje. Idealno za ovu burnu dramu neponovljivog Tenesija Vilijamsa.
Montgomeri Klift, Elizabet Tejlor i Ketrin Hepburn - ne mo啪e bolje. Idealno za ovu burnu dramu neponovljivog Tenesija Vilijamsa.
July 25, 2023
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January 24, 2024
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August 9, 2020
En la cafeter铆a de Audrey
Trivial literario, temporada Primavera/Verano (2020)
Obra de teatro oscura que tiene versi贸n cinematogr谩fica que en mi opini贸n supera al libro.
Trivial literario, temporada Primavera/Verano (2020)
Obra de teatro oscura que tiene versi贸n cinematogr谩fica que en mi opini贸n supera al libro.
September 16, 2021
I love TN Williams. Streetcar, this play, Cat/Roof, and The Glass Menagerie are plays I could watch over and over. Katherine Hepburn as Violet and Liz Taylor as Catherine are iconic in the filmic rendition (1959) film (which I highly recommend!). The hungry, devouring birds and the truth that Violet wants to excise out of Catherine鈥檚 brain about Sebastian, the devouring poet鈥攈aunting and violent. I like Williams鈥� study of power dynamics among the haves vs. have-nots, and I feel the destruction and horror this text raises through a queer reading; the self-loathing/the 鈥榗ut.鈥� It鈥檚 brutal, of course, but I admire it so much for the sterling courage it took to create this text during the 1950s. A brutal masterpiece.
October 8, 2018
4,5 *
Uma excelente surpresa!
Uma pequena pe莽a de teatro com muito conte煤do e bem interessante do in铆cio ao fim. Adorei, n茫o fosse o final e teria dado as 5 estrelas. Uma esp茅cie de thriller com muito suspense, num equil铆brio muito bem conseguido entre entretenimento e provoca莽茫o para a reflex茫o. Inc贸modo e estimulante.
Recomendo, l锚-se em poucas horas e vale bem a pena. Quero ler mais t铆tulos deste autor!
video sobre esta minha experi锚ncia de leitura em:
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Uma excelente surpresa!
Uma pequena pe莽a de teatro com muito conte煤do e bem interessante do in铆cio ao fim. Adorei, n茫o fosse o final e teria dado as 5 estrelas. Uma esp茅cie de thriller com muito suspense, num equil铆brio muito bem conseguido entre entretenimento e provoca莽茫o para a reflex茫o. Inc贸modo e estimulante.
Recomendo, l锚-se em poucas horas e vale bem a pena. Quero ler mais t铆tulos deste autor!
video sobre esta minha experi锚ncia de leitura em:
post no blogue (inclui o video) em:
August 5, 2020
Parece ser que lo m铆o no es el teatro. Al menos no para leerlo. Me resulta bastante desconcertante la forma sobreactuada en la que se expresan los personajes, pero entiendo que es una caracter铆stica de este genero.
La historia es un poco absurda. Es un drama familiar bastante surrealista, pero al ser teatralizado, hace que por momentos, ciertas acciones parezcan c贸micas.
Creo que me hubiera gustado m谩s si lo hubiera visto representado, pero como lectura no me ha llamado mucho la atenci贸n. A su favor, que es una lectura muy cortita y se lee en un rato.
La historia es un poco absurda. Es un drama familiar bastante surrealista, pero al ser teatralizado, hace que por momentos, ciertas acciones parezcan c贸micas.
Creo que me hubiera gustado m谩s si lo hubiera visto representado, pero como lectura no me ha llamado mucho la atenci贸n. A su favor, que es una lectura muy cortita y se lee en un rato.
September 23, 2013
Williams brings the monsters out in full regalia. The chef de monstre is Violet. She's the grand dame of a New Orleans family. She had an oddly close relationship to her son, Sebastian, who was murdered in Europe the last summer. Now, she wants to cover up the entire murder and to do this she wants to give her niece a lobotomy. This might get her niece to stop telling the truth of what happened. Even if it doesn't stop her from talking, it will probably stop anyone from listening to her or taking her seriously. As the grand dame, she is more than willing to use her control over the money to persuade her niece's mom to agree to the lobotomy.
Then there's her charming son, Sebastian. Yes, he's dead, but his ghost haunts and drives the entire play. He did nothing in his life except write one poem each summer for twenty-five years. Even the ones who liked him admit that he, at most, could only use people. And he only liked to have beautiful people around him. Any deformity would drive him away. So, when his Mom had a stroke, he basically disowned his mom and took his cousin under his wing.
Being under Sebastian's wing was not such a glorious position. He used first his Mom, and then his cousin, as pimps to procure poor but pretty European boys to have sex with. How this worked is a mystery to me. With his niece, he had her wear a see through white swim suit, and somehow the sight of her through the swimsuit drew guys to her and led to gay sex for him. Go figure. And his mom took on that role beforehand? I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that, but on second thought, I'd rather not.
Catherine, the niece, is a lunatic. Why? As near as I can figure, its because she tells the truth about the murder she saw, and because she did not respond very well to being raped a few years before. I think she's become an inconvenience, and she does show some emotional instability, but would this really have been enough to get her committed? I doubt its realistic, but it suits the situation here.
Catherine's mom and her brother are only concerned about themselves and the money. At the start, the brother seems the worst of the two. He's definitely the more boorish. In the end, he appears to relent. But it seemed pretty clear to me that the mother wants the money, and her daugher is in an institution anyway. What real harm would come from a lobotomy? It would just help everyone forget something unpleasant.
And what was the shameful thing that needs to be hidden? What truth does Catherine say that must be hidden? She claims that Sebastian got killed and partially eaten by the kids he was trying to lure into sexual relationships. From an emotional standpoint, I can see how this might be really powerful. But as a reader of horror and mysteries, I don't buy it. Whatever happened to Sebastian, there would at least be some substantial forensic evidence. And given his position as a rich American, the story would get out, no matter what Catherine said.
Some beautiful writing here, and on the metaphorical level, I think it worked very well. But if it were a dimestore mystery, I'd dismiss it because the writer hadn't done his homework.
Then there's her charming son, Sebastian. Yes, he's dead, but his ghost haunts and drives the entire play. He did nothing in his life except write one poem each summer for twenty-five years. Even the ones who liked him admit that he, at most, could only use people. And he only liked to have beautiful people around him. Any deformity would drive him away. So, when his Mom had a stroke, he basically disowned his mom and took his cousin under his wing.
Being under Sebastian's wing was not such a glorious position. He used first his Mom, and then his cousin, as pimps to procure poor but pretty European boys to have sex with. How this worked is a mystery to me. With his niece, he had her wear a see through white swim suit, and somehow the sight of her through the swimsuit drew guys to her and led to gay sex for him. Go figure. And his mom took on that role beforehand? I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that, but on second thought, I'd rather not.
Catherine, the niece, is a lunatic. Why? As near as I can figure, its because she tells the truth about the murder she saw, and because she did not respond very well to being raped a few years before. I think she's become an inconvenience, and she does show some emotional instability, but would this really have been enough to get her committed? I doubt its realistic, but it suits the situation here.
Catherine's mom and her brother are only concerned about themselves and the money. At the start, the brother seems the worst of the two. He's definitely the more boorish. In the end, he appears to relent. But it seemed pretty clear to me that the mother wants the money, and her daugher is in an institution anyway. What real harm would come from a lobotomy? It would just help everyone forget something unpleasant.
And what was the shameful thing that needs to be hidden? What truth does Catherine say that must be hidden? She claims that Sebastian got killed and partially eaten by the kids he was trying to lure into sexual relationships. From an emotional standpoint, I can see how this might be really powerful. But as a reader of horror and mysteries, I don't buy it. Whatever happened to Sebastian, there would at least be some substantial forensic evidence. And given his position as a rich American, the story would get out, no matter what Catherine said.
Some beautiful writing here, and on the metaphorical level, I think it worked very well. But if it were a dimestore mystery, I'd dismiss it because the writer hadn't done his homework.
April 22, 2018
Weak but manageable, entertaining enough. The setup is good, and we feel for Catherine and the plight she is in. Only it鈥檚 too predictable, although that could be a question of setting since the concept is outdated for us modern readers. It may have been innovative or original back then鈥攖o blame someone as crazy even though they may not be, just to cover up something... it鈥檚 quite the horror scenario when one thinks about it. It鈥檚 a one act play and very linear, which makes it a quick read without much complexity or subtleness. I didn鈥檛 care much for the ending, it was rather shallow and unconvincing.
August 11, 2020
Definitivamente, tengo que leer m谩s teatro. Me gusta lo fluido que es, los dialogos, imaginarme a los personajes en el escenario, el juego de luces, las voces pis谩ndose unas a otras. Es un g茅nero que siempre disfruto, ya sea comedia, misterio o, como este caso, un oscuro drama, un juego de mentiras, una pelea entre el amor y el odio, entre uno tiene y uno quiere, con un final (real o no) que no dejar谩 indeferente a nadie.
Me gust贸!!!
Me gust贸!!!
August 17, 2020
No me a gustado para nada, es demasiado rara.
April 13, 2021
I'm in love with everything that Tennessee Williams wrote.
May 18, 2024
I read this play hoping it would go a bit deeper than the adaptation with Elizabeth Taylor. As it turns out, the film has more to offer in terms of developing the scenes and the horror of Catherine's situation. The story itself, while eerily memorable, remains a morbid, twisted tale that doesn't seek to go deeper than shock value or hold much back in terms of explanation. I feel there is the skeleton of a psychological thriller here, but it begs for a retelling.
July 5, 2022
i don't understand a lot of the sh*t that i used to do when i was younger, but most of all, i REALLY don't get what i was going through ages 13-15 when i was watching the 1959 film adaptation of this play every. single. night.
i cannot imagine that was great for my development.
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i have always said that this is my absolute favorite american play of all time and i think about it all the time until i miss it so much that i have to pick it up for a reread
one of those times
i cannot imagine that was great for my development.
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i have always said that this is my absolute favorite american play of all time and i think about it all the time until i miss it so much that i have to pick it up for a reread
one of those times
October 29, 2007
my ex keeps asking me what i love about this play, and i can never articulate it (so don't get your hopes up, here). perhaps it's its concern with involuntary, and incorrect, institutionalisation, or its brutal imagery; perhaps it's its meditations upon what it is to be a poet. whatever it may be, the work stirs many an emotion in me, corny as it sounds.
August 6, 2020
No me ha gustado. Claro, que leer teatro tampoco es de mi agrado.
August 3, 2020
I was first introduced to this play via late night television. It's a true Southern Gothic play by Tennesse Williams inspired by some real experiences in his life and that of his friends who took to enjoying and exploiting the sexual delights of Tangiers, Morocco. The adaptation of this play for the movies was done by no other than Gore Vidal and starred Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Cliff and I tell you I was mesmerized by this play, it burned, it sizzled with dark melodrama and a subtext of confused sexuality and incest. I loved it. Liz was gorgeous. Kate was great. So when I got my hands on the play in paperback I was game.
The plot centers on a young woman who, at the insistence of her wealthy aunt, is being evaluated by a psychiatric doctor to receive a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin Sebastian Venable while travelling with him the previous summer. It's amazing how many people were willing to hush women if they inconvenienced them by lobotomizing them. Think Rosemary Kennedy, apparently this was the fate for Rose Williams Tennesssee's older sister.
The late Sebastian's wealthy mother, Violet Venable, ( a monstrous, heartless, woman) makes every effort to deny and suppress the potentially sordid truth about her son and his demise. Toward that end, she attempts to bribe the doctor by offering to finance a new wing for the underfunded facility if he lobotomizes her niece, thereby removing any chance that the events surrounding her son's death might be revealed by Catherine's "obscene babbling."
You have to remember that this was set in the late 30's and homosexuality was deeply closeted and people could be imprisoned for it, so people had to stay in the closet, this is also set in the deep south in New Orleans, in Esplanade Avenue with a sub-tropical patio and then set in Tangiers - where many men then used the young natives for their special delight. So there are all kinds of internal conflict, for Sebastian (his sexuality) for Catherine (her sanity) for Violet (her incest) true Gothic.
The plot centers on a young woman who, at the insistence of her wealthy aunt, is being evaluated by a psychiatric doctor to receive a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin Sebastian Venable while travelling with him the previous summer. It's amazing how many people were willing to hush women if they inconvenienced them by lobotomizing them. Think Rosemary Kennedy, apparently this was the fate for Rose Williams Tennesssee's older sister.
The late Sebastian's wealthy mother, Violet Venable, ( a monstrous, heartless, woman) makes every effort to deny and suppress the potentially sordid truth about her son and his demise. Toward that end, she attempts to bribe the doctor by offering to finance a new wing for the underfunded facility if he lobotomizes her niece, thereby removing any chance that the events surrounding her son's death might be revealed by Catherine's "obscene babbling."
You have to remember that this was set in the late 30's and homosexuality was deeply closeted and people could be imprisoned for it, so people had to stay in the closet, this is also set in the deep south in New Orleans, in Esplanade Avenue with a sub-tropical patio and then set in Tangiers - where many men then used the young natives for their special delight. So there are all kinds of internal conflict, for Sebastian (his sexuality) for Catherine (her sanity) for Violet (her incest) true Gothic.
December 30, 2011
Originally, I read this play in high school. I went through the motions of pretending that I was shocked by the ending. Really, I was just tired of reading selection after selection from that particular English teacher. I know I wasn't really paying attention to the words, but some of them must have stuck...not in my throat.
I watched the movie Playing by Heart and I understood the reference to this play, but I couldn't recall specific plot details, and it really bugged me. However, I didn't re-read this play until I found out that I could see the play performed.
Super creepy plot! If you think you have a controlling mother, you really should read this play or see it performed. You'll probably feel much better about your relationship with your mother. Sebastian's mother is intent on hiding who her son truly was. She's committed to having her niece committed and lobotomized to keep those family secrets about Sebastian.
As much as I love seeing plays performed, I would advise that you read this one first before hitting the theater. Just so you're prepared. Otherwise, I could see feelings of complete disgust, contempt, frustration, anger and the like consuming you.
I watched the movie Playing by Heart and I understood the reference to this play, but I couldn't recall specific plot details, and it really bugged me. However, I didn't re-read this play until I found out that I could see the play performed.
Super creepy plot! If you think you have a controlling mother, you really should read this play or see it performed. You'll probably feel much better about your relationship with your mother. Sebastian's mother is intent on hiding who her son truly was. She's committed to having her niece committed and lobotomized to keep those family secrets about Sebastian.
As much as I love seeing plays performed, I would advise that you read this one first before hitting the theater. Just so you're prepared. Otherwise, I could see feelings of complete disgust, contempt, frustration, anger and the like consuming you.
November 25, 2018
I'd seen the movie last year and it mesmerized me.
This so far is my favorite Williams play. From the very first line to the last. New Orleans. A hot tropical greenhouse garden. Strange exotic plants. Birds squawking in the background. An aging southern belle with subconscious incestuous desires for her gay son and her unwillingness to hear the truth about his violent death on a white hot day in Mexico.
A young woman interned and threatened with this new radical operation meant to cut the madness out her brain.
The madness being what she knows and the power she yields.
The blond doctor trying to get to the bottom of a story that is without one.
And of course Sebastian. Mysterious and self destructive Sebastian with his poems of summer and his memory of the Encantas baby turtles hatched out of their mothers eggs on a beach running fleeing to the water while above the sky fills with blackness, a mass of birds, hungry for flesh.
A disturbing, seductive play, perfect from start to finish.
I won't soon forget it.
This so far is my favorite Williams play. From the very first line to the last. New Orleans. A hot tropical greenhouse garden. Strange exotic plants. Birds squawking in the background. An aging southern belle with subconscious incestuous desires for her gay son and her unwillingness to hear the truth about his violent death on a white hot day in Mexico.
A young woman interned and threatened with this new radical operation meant to cut the madness out her brain.
The madness being what she knows and the power she yields.
The blond doctor trying to get to the bottom of a story that is without one.
And of course Sebastian. Mysterious and self destructive Sebastian with his poems of summer and his memory of the Encantas baby turtles hatched out of their mothers eggs on a beach running fleeing to the water while above the sky fills with blackness, a mass of birds, hungry for flesh.
A disturbing, seductive play, perfect from start to finish.
I won't soon forget it.
July 8, 2021
De repente, el 煤ltimo verano es una obra tan sofisticada como intensa, abordando unos temas escabrosos y turbios de un modo que deja perplejo. Es la primera obra de Tennessee Williams que leo y me ha encantado. En menos de 50 p谩ginas es capaz de contar toda una historia de su torturado mundo. Es surrealista y potente.
Fue llevada al cine por Joseph L. Mankiewicz en el 59, contando con un maravilloso reparto de estrellas como Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor y Montgomery Clift. Adem谩s, 茅l particip贸 en la producci贸n junto a Gore Vidal, por lo que el resultado fue una cinta absorbente y perturbadora. Sus interpretes, sobre todo destaco a Hepburn y a Taylor, gozan de una elegancia del viejo Hollywood y un talento mod茅lico.
Si te acercas a la obra teatral, recomiendo encarecidamente darle la oportunidad tambi茅n a su maravillosa adaptaci贸n.
Fue llevada al cine por Joseph L. Mankiewicz en el 59, contando con un maravilloso reparto de estrellas como Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor y Montgomery Clift. Adem谩s, 茅l particip贸 en la producci贸n junto a Gore Vidal, por lo que el resultado fue una cinta absorbente y perturbadora. Sus interpretes, sobre todo destaco a Hepburn y a Taylor, gozan de una elegancia del viejo Hollywood y un talento mod茅lico.
Si te acercas a la obra teatral, recomiendo encarecidamente darle la oportunidad tambi茅n a su maravillosa adaptaci贸n.
August 8, 2020
Tremenda obra de teatro, perteneciente a eso que llamaron g贸tico sure帽o . Los que tenemos una edad pudimos ver en nuestra juventud multitud de pel铆culas del Hollywood cl谩sico que recreaban las obras de Tennesee Williams y dem谩s autores de la 茅poca. Tremendos dramas donde se sacaba lo peor de cada uno, fruto de la mente atormentada de un autor que refleja las miserias de la familia, de la impostura social, la hipocres铆a, la falta de sentimientos por quien es diferente.
Leer teatro no es f谩cil, no est谩 hecho para ser le铆do y en todo caso me quedo con la pel铆cula que adapt贸 esta obra, con Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn y Montgomery Clift, que siempre merece la pena recuperar.
Leer teatro no es f谩cil, no est谩 hecho para ser le铆do y en todo caso me quedo con la pel铆cula que adapt贸 esta obra, con Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn y Montgomery Clift, que siempre merece la pena recuperar.
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