Enjoy 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton And Other Plays Documented By Tennessee Williams Available As Publication

always I adored Tennessees writing, Some plays in this collection, like This Property is Condemned, The Purification, and The Long Goodbye, were fantastic.
For the most part the plays were enjoyable, but I didnt love The Last of My Solid Gold Watches and Lord Byrons Love Letter.
Overall a great collection Contains This Property is Condemned,
I read this book when I was in my early teens and now atI still feel the mood of it.
. . selfoppressing and teetering on the edge of a volcano, Very worth reading. This book is full of sexual content with no reasonable purpose, I'm not against sexual content but I need to see a reasonable purpose for this.


To be honest, I didn't even like it at all, it's just like opening a porn book or sth.
I played Vicarro in a stage version, One of my favorites. I'm a bit biased, since I acted in this, Still, I absolutely love the plot and the characters are incredible, Obviously with a collection of short plays there's gonna be some hits and misses, but there's enough good stuff in this that I highly recommend it.
This Property is Condemned is heartbreaking,Wagons is disturbing, and The Demolition Downtown was a big surprise, since it felt almost sci fi.
I wasn't wild about The Last of My Solid Gold Watches or Steps

Must be Gentle, but the writing was interesting enough that I stayed engaged throughout.
This is a great collection of short oneact plays from the early portion of Tennessee Williams' career, Stunning in its range and the vibrancy as always of characters, You want some dreamers You've got it: "The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, " How about a doomed romance You've got that, too: "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen.
" You need sadism mendacity Southern gothic crassness There's the titular play for all of that and more, In short, every one of Williams' signature elements appears here in short form via a oneact play, In a way, it's like a collection of snackable versions of his masterpieces plus a couple of oddballs to boot.
Think of all the oddly placed Shakespeare adaptations Richard III in as Fascist state: Romeo and Juliet in a modern day South Beach, or on NY's upper west side The Tempest in space Forbidden Planet Macbeth in feudal Japan Throne of Blood.
And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of odd offBroadway productions where the director had an "idea.
" Many of these are truly awful, but for some reason it's tremendously easy to imagine Shakespeare in other places and at other times.


Which gets me to Tennessee Williams, I tend to like him, But reading these one act plays, for some reason it struck me how bound they seem to be to the American South in the blues/jazz era.
That's how particular his work seems to me, When I think of his plays, I feel sweat, I see beads of water rolling down the outside of a glass with some sickly sweet liquor in it.
Everything is both languid and intense, His characters tend to cry out for more shade,

The plays here are one acts, They came across to me as sketches, usually character sketches, And there's nothing wrong with that, There were at least three, and maybe more, takes on Blanche Dubois, refracted in different ways, For the most part, these plays seemed more like character reveals than truly dramatic, I may have been missing something, and might think differently about them if I saw them performed, But I didn't see all that much in the way of motion or momentum in the majority of them.
And the characters, for the most part, seemed to me like revamps of characters I had already seen in his other plays.
Thus, reading them didn't do all that much for me, But then again, reading really is a bad way to get introduced to plays, The sad thing is that there is basically little, or no, opportunity to see any of these things performed.
That I would probably like, Classic Tennessee Williams. Despair, decay, no hope. But always worth reading just not in concentrated doses,/first off, i love tennessee williams with all of my heart, he is my favorite play write!!! i really enjoyed this compilation of some of his shorter plays, there wasin total give or take i mostly enjoyed them all, my favorites include: “wagons full of cotton,” “Portrait of a Madonna,” “AutoDaFé,” “Lord Byrons Love Letter,” “Hello from Bertha,” and “This Property is Condemned.
” I noticed that Tennessee Williams LOVES a good damsel in distress character, so many of these plays have female characters who just kinda live in a dream world much like blanche in streetcar.
they seem so airy and disconnected from the real world, no hate towards that, just an observation! the only thing i didnt looove about this book was that it felt kind of confusing at times to read apage play and then immediately read another play with a different plot and set of characters.
sometimes things got intertwined in my head but all in all i did enjoy my time with this book! The first time I read this book I was in high school and it has stayed with me ever since.
One play in particular, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, " As a Williams play, it's subtext is thick and weighty, it's nameless protagonist desperate like the rest of them.
Williams' third book of drama, after Battle of Angels and The Glass Menagerie, Eleven oneact plays, including "This Property is Condemned, " The best thing to read on mass transit, One act plays, who would have thought, It's like I'm at the theater everyday, and I'm not talking about my people's chariot copilots, I got sent to the principal's office freshman year for reading this instead of "At Risk" the book about the little girl who gets AIDS from a blood transfusion in my English class.
WTF GREAT!! dark southern gothic oneacts, the title play is spectacular, Short plays which are occasionally a bit more sketches than I would prefer, but there's still some quite strong writing involved, The best of the bunch are the storiesWagons Full of Cotton and The Last of My Solid Gold Watches.
Have to think about the rest,

These short plays have Tennessee Williams' name written all around them, Very recognizable, the athmosphere is there all right, Interesante obra de teatro corta del mismo autor de un tranvía llamado deseo, Como no he leído mucho este generó he preferido empezar con algo corto y la verdad es que la experiencia me ha gustado.
No descarto embarcarme en algo de mayor envergadura I've previously read and loved Tennessee Williams' work, so when I saw this interesting title, I knew I had to pick it up.
But this being a library issue, I couldn't finish it, I could only read the firstout of theplays, but I loved most of them, and think it deserves.


This is a book of small plays, mostly one act ones, divided into various scenes, Most of the plays are characteristically poetic, however quite varied in subject and have been united only on the basis of being one act plays, perhaps, because I found no other connecting thread.

All these plays are woven around only a handful of characters, sometimes, onlyof them, and sometimes include more in secondary roles and hence are very character driven.


.Wagons full of cotton it is the first and title play of the collection and has some of the strength of A Streetcar named Desire.
It tells the story of a cotton gin owner who commits arson on a factory to get more consignment and how his wife has to pay for that crime.
I loved the writing and execution, I just didn't like the fact that the play ends without the husband coming to know of his wife's battery.


. The Purification it is a very lyrical and musical play centred on a family ravaged by incestuous passions, leading to the murder of the daughter of the family by her husband who cannot stand her brother's and hers passion for each other.
The play constitutes a community trial of the husband and while the verdict is given, it appears that he evades it.
The ending is quite unclear, actually,

. The Lady of Larkspur Lotion it reminded me of O, Henry's short stories with its conception and execution, with the high handed, emotional and dreamy use of language by the character of the aspiring author.
It talks about dreamy characters who escape the realities of their lives by addiction and continue to dwell in poverty.


. The Last of My Solid Gold Watches it is a sad tale about a man's glorious career and life coming to an end and his inability to cope with that.
But it also critiques the old generation's criticism of the new,

. Portrait of a Madonna it is centred on a senile, old spinster who fancies herself to have been raped by a former lover.
It again throws light on the difficulties of old age and is a good creation,

. AutoDaFé it is the story of a mother and son, both ravaged by nervous problems, to which a mysterious letter with lewd pictures, a possibility of lawful conviction etc are added, leading to the nervous breakdown of the son, bringing doom to the household.


. Lord Byron's Love Letter it is about two women, a grandmother and her granddaughter, living in an old family residence that houses a love letter written by Lord Byron to the grandmother that they display to public on request, for a charge.
It is hilarious in some parts, with the older woman's behaviour and a little disheartening as the couple to come to see the letter leave without paying.
But the end reveals the letter to be just by her grandfather,

I'm just waiting to get my hands on it again so that I can devour the rest of the plays.
Recommend it to everyone interested in drama, Only 'Portrait of a Madonna'Wagons Full of Cotton, The Purification, The Lady of Larkspur, Lotion, The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Portrait of a Madonna, AutoDaFe, Lord Byron's Love Letter, The Strangest Kind of Romance, The Long Goodbye, Hello from Bertha, This Property Is Condemned, Talk to Me Like the Rain.
. . , Something Unspoken, The Unsatisfactory Supper, Steps Must be Gentle, The Demolition Downtown My favorites were the last two, the beautiful Talk to me like the rain.
. . and let me listen, and Something Unspoken Someone, help! Every Tennessee play I read replaces the others as favorites and I'm only halfway through the semester! Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen is another of my favorite plays of all time.
Love it. نمایش نامه یواگن بار پنبه را به فارسی دیده ام. بسیاری از کارهای تنسی ویلیامز از جمله نمایش نامه های تک پرده ای و کوتاهش در دهه ی سی بعد از کودتا به فارسی ترجمه و اجرا شده. گویا آن زمان قرار بوده فرهنگ آمریکایی و انگلیسی جای فرهنگ و زبان فرانسه را که از دوران مشروطه در ایران معمول بود بگیرد. یک آمریکایی هم بود که نامش را درست بخاطر ندارم دکتر کویین بی که در دانشکده ی ادبیات انگلیسی تدریس می کرد و برخی از آثار تنسی ویلیامز و آرتور میللر را در تالار فردوسی روی صحنه آورد تقریبن بانی گروه تیاتر دانشگاه تهران شد رکن الدین خسروی و حمید سمندریان هم در برخی کارها با او همکاری داشتند. اجرای این آمریکایی از "نگاهی از پل" اثر آرتور میللر را بصورتی مبهم به یاد دارم.
A collection ofoneact plays, including some of Williams' most famous, such as "The Last of my Solid Gold Watches" and the titular "Wagons Full of Cotton"

"Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen" is a favorite as well, but I especially like "The Purification"

Tennessee Williams is fantastic and his plays are just as engaging to read as to see performed, which definitely cannot be said of all playwrights.


The collection has an introduction by Williams' that is a short essay on his views about contemporary grass roots thater in America he seems to be espousing that a sort of careless creative freedom is more necessary in socially potent art than high production values.
This collection of oneact plays includes some rather weak and uninspired ones The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Lord Byron's Love Letter but also some quite excellent worksWagons Full of Cotton, The Strangest Kind of Romance, Hello From Bertha.
The Purification, Williams' only verse play, is also interesting a dreamlike, fateful story of murder and incest with a chorus and a guitarplayer, though it does turn unintentionally comical in its emulation of Ancient Greek tragedy.


All the typical elements of Williams' betterknown works are here these works are often dark, featuring grotesque characters and tragic situations, but there's also lots of humour in most of these plays.
I love how Williams is on the side of the marginalized the mentally ill, the homosexual, the prostitutes, alcoholics etc.
. A very humane and entertaining author, .