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The Rose Tattoo
The Rose Tattoo
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Author: Tennessee Williams Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 72 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0822209713 ISBN-13: 9780822209713 Cast Size: 14 women, 9 men
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About
the Play:
Winner of the 1951 Tony Award for Best Play
The Rose Tattoo is a full-length drama by Tennessee
Williams. Set among a colony of Sicilian fisherfolk on the
American Gulf Coast, The Rose Tattoo is the story of a woman for whom love was
stronger than death. One of the author's most beautiful and powerful
plays.
The Rose Tattoo is larger than life – a fable, a Greek
tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama – it is a love letter from Tennessee
Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be.
Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn
from the world, locking away her heart and her sixteen-year-old
daughter Rosa. Then one day a fiery suitor with the sexy body of her
late Sicilian husband and the face of a village idiot, Mangiacavallo
(Italian for "eat a horse"), stumbles into her life and
clumsily unlocks Serafina's fiery anger, sense of betrayal, pride,
wit, passion, and eventually her capacious love. Tennessee
Williams' lesser-known gem sizzles with humour and heart in
sultry New Orleans. Serafina erupts from the depths of despair to the
heights of passion in this Tony Award-winning Best Play.
The Rose Tattoo premiered in 1951 at the Martin Beck
Theatre (now known as the Al Hirschfeld Theatre) and won Tony Awards
for best play and for the stars, Eli Wallach and Maureen
Stapleton. It spawned
three
Broadway revivals, a successful 1955 film adaptation, and has enjoyed
enduring international popularity.
Cast: 14 women, 9 men
About the Playwright:
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of the 20th century's
most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and
prolific. He was born in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather
was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman,
moved with his family to St. Louis some years later, both he and his
sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered
college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to
take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years,
spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in
1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large
number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He was awarded four
Drama Critic Circle Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes and the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
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