The Two-Character Play
Civic Rep
(at New City Theater)
Through August 1, 2015
Orpheus Descending
The Williams Project/Intiman Theatre
(at 12th Avenue Arts)
Through August 2, 2015
Tennessee Williams’ most successful and well-known plays
were written earlier in his life in an about fifteen year period from 1943 to
1958. The Glass Menagerie was the
first hit, but others included A
Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, Orpheus Descending and Sweet Bird of Youth.
Always plays of despair and anguish, Williams’ plays and
other writings were said to reflect aspects of his own experiences with an
alcoholic father, a mentally unstable sister who spent years in asylums, and
his own struggle with homosexuality that was dangerous to acknowledge for most
of his life.