WILLIAMS, Tennessee.

£1,100 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Small Craft Warnings. Rehearsal script of the author's late play, premiered on 2 April 1972, and a rare commercial success for Williams at this time. The play provided the author with an opportunity to appear on stage when one of the actors dropped out during the run. Williams noted "I have to admit that I am a ham and that I loved it" (Lahr, p. 530).The play was expanded from the author's Confessional (1970) to become a full-length work. The Broadway production was followed, a year later, with a production in the West End. There have been Off-Broadway revivals in 1999, 2001, and 2011.The script comprises the title page, a listing of characters, the script of Act 1 (43 pages), and Act 2 (52 pages). The play was first published by New Directions in 1972. There are some minor differences between this script and the published version. Some stage directions use the language of the stagecraft ("Fade in the sound of ocean wind" compared with the published "The sound of ocean wind is heard"). The opening line also differs ("Do you notice? There?" which was published as "Notice? Over there?").

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