Lovely and Misfit
Trafalgar Studios 2, 14 Whitehall, London 6 March to 31 March 2007
Three "undiscovered" short plays by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Anna Ledwich
"If I wanna write a drag queen, I'll write a drag queen, and I have
written one as a matter of fact." Tennessee Williams 1971
In Tennessee Williams's most provocative and openly gay play, And
Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, Candy Delaney, a gay transvestite living
in the Old French Quarter of New Orleans, suffers "a damaged heart" after
her older lover deserts her. Then one night she brings home Karl, a rough
merchant sailor...
In Summer by the Lake, an introverted boy is desperate to escape his domineering
mother and in Mr Paradise a reclusive poet receives a surprise visit from
a fan on a mission.
Strikingly autobiographical, these three plays in Lovely and Misfit explore
the themes that established Tennessee Williams as one of the Twentieth Century's
greatest playwrights with The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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