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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
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Author: Tennessee Williams Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 57 Pub. Date: 1992 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822203499 ISBN-13: 9780822203490 Cast Size: 5 female, 5 male
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About
the Play:
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male Monologues, and Female/Male Scenes.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
is a full-length drama by Tennessee Williams. Alma still lives
in her stifling parent's home and is haunted by the fear of
spinsterhood. When John, their neighbour's son returns for the
Christmas holidays she sets her sights on the handsome young doctor.
But will she confound his protective mother and the small time
gossips by winning him? The Eccentricities of a Nightingale is
a sensuous story of longing and rebellion.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
is about
a sensitive and lonely singing teacher who makes a final, desperate
attempt to win the man of her dreams. Alma Winemiller, known as 'the
nightingale of the Delta,' lives in her stifling parents' home in a
small-minded Southern town. Suppressed by her joyless father and
ostracized by the community for her artistic temperament, she finds
solace in her music – and in the secret lifelong love she has for
the boy-next-door, turned handsome grown-up, Dr. John Buchanan.
Driven by her desire for truth and beauty, Miss Alma finally
confesses her longing to John and what emerges is one of the
theatre's most startlingly modern and complex love stories. Longing,
loneliness and regret permeate Tennessee
Williams'
beautifully atmospheric drama.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale was written in 1951 and
debuted on Broadway in 1976 at the Morosco Theatre after being
fine-tuned by Williams for 25 years; more than just a revision of his
1948 play Summer and Smoke, it became a radically different work of
art. The play has become a
favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and
is regularly performed in regional, high school, college, and
community theatres around the world.
Cast: 5 female, 5 male
What people say:
"This is a warm, rich play
full of that compassion and understanding and that simple poetry of
the heart that is Mr. Williams at his shining, gentle best."
— The New York Times.
"…representative of Williams
at his most wonderful…the sheer poetry of his language still comes
with surprise." — New York Post
"…a powerful, more often
than not heart-rending tale of a spinster undone by dreams…some
moments exhale a poetry beyond description." — New
York Magazine
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 received a
Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948
and 1955.
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