Williams Plays: 4
Williams Plays: 4

Author: Roy Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 147252070X

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'[Williams's] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' Observer Sucker Punch: 'As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.' The Times Joe Guy: 'Williams's dialogue ricochets around the stage like gunfire . . . energetic, exciting and entertaining.' Stage Category B: 'Category B is a harrowing play, but one shot through with both dark humour and tentative flickers of hope'. Daily Telegraph Baby Girl: 'The shocking thing about Roy Williams's Baby Girl is that it argues that there is a cyclical pattern to teenage pregnancy . . . Williams paints a rivetingly plausible picture of a world in which mothers and daughters are sexual rivals, 'virgin' is the ultimate peer insult and the school gates are a fertile hunting ground for male predators.' Guardian There's Only One Wayne Matthews: 'Williams's writing is punchy . . . Wayne's gradual understanding of the realities of the world make this a touching coming-of-age drama.' Guardian

Four Plays
Four Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Signet

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9780451525123

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This anthology contains four of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most brilliant works: Summer and Smoke, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Period of Adjustment. "The innocent and the damned, the lonely and the frustrated, the hopeful and the hopeless . . . (Williams) brings them all into focus with an earthy, irreverently comic passion".--Newsweek.

The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays
The Magic Tower and Other One-act Plays

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780811219204

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This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Waiting for Teddy Williams
Waiting for Teddy Williams

Author: Howard Frank Mosher

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780618619030

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On the eighth birthday of Ethan "E.A". Allen, who lives with his mother and Gran in a Vermont town decades behind the rest of New England, a drifter named Teddy comes into their world, teaching E.A. how to play ball and the secrets of baseball.

Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780822210979

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THE STORY: A play that is profoundly affecting, SUMMER AND SMOKE is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward lif

Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Clothes for a Summer Hotel

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811208710

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This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

No Easy Way
No Easy Way

Author: Fred Bowen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-02-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1101642661

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Ted Williams hit .406 for the season in 1941? a feat not matched since. In this inspirational picture book, authentic sportswriting and rich, classic illustrations bring to life the truly spectacular story of the Red Sox legend, whose hard work and perseverance make him the perfect role model for baseball enthusiasts of all ages.

Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

Author: Philip C. Kolin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-04-27

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521626101

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One of the most important plays of the twentieth century, A Streetcar Named Desire revolutionised the modern stage. This book offers the first continuous history of the play in production from 1947 to 1998 with an emphasis on the collaborative achievement of Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, and Jo Mielziner in the Broadway premiere. From there chapters survey major national premieres by the world's leading directors including those by Seki Sano (Mexico), Luchino Visconti (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), Jean Cocteau (France ) and Laurence Olivier (England). Philip Kolin also evaluates key English-language revivals and assesses how the script evolved and adapted to cultural changes. Interpretations by Black and gay theatre companies also receive analyses and transformations into other media, such as ballet, film, television, and opera (premiered in 1998) form an important part of the overall study.

The Gnädiges Fräulein
The Gnädiges Fräulein

Author: Tennessee Williams

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780822204510

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Described as a "tragicomedy", this one-act play is set in a Florida bunkhouse for "permanent transients". The title may be translated as "The Gracious Lady", but the "characters include a kooky society gossip columnist, the frowsy crone who runs the place, a demented former Viennese vaudevillian, a Cocaloony bird (evidently a local name for a pelican) and a tomahawk-brandishing, war-whooping, blond-wigged Indian." -- adapted from publisher's website.

Jumped
Jumped

Author: Rita Williams-Garcia

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0061975710

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Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narrative about choices and the impact that even the most seemingly insignificant ones can have. A National Book Award finalist. One day. One huge New York City high school. Three girls, headed toward one slow-motion collision. There’s Trina, a pretty, self-involved artist who’s sure she’s bringing beauty and color to the lives of everyone around her, regardless of what they really think. There’s Leticia, who skates by on minimal effort; she’s more interested in her cell phone, her nails, and gossip than school. And there’s Dominique, an angry basketball player who’s been benched for low grades. When Trina unknowingly offends Dominique, Dominique decides that it’s going down—after school, she’s going to jump Trina. Trina has no idea. And Leticia is the only witness to Dominique’s rage, the only one who could stop the beatdown from coming. But does she want to get involved in this mess?