Staged Readings of 3 great plays by American Master
Tennessee Williams
Directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham.
Featuring Brian A. Costello, Eileen Glenn, Kelli Holsopple, Marlene May, Kathleen A. Menino, Matt Stapleton, and Elise Stone.
Suddenly Last Summer
In this haunting drama, Catherine Holly has witnessed the shocking and mysterious death of her cousin, and returns home to his family, who don’t believe her story. Catharine seems to be suffering from insanity, and the dead boy’s mother is so eager to deny the facts about his death that she ruthlessly has Catharine put away in a mental institution, ready to order up a lobotomy, as soon as she puts down her daiquiri.
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Hopelessly romantic Dorothea is a high school teacher who imagines she’ll marry her principal. She rooms with a spinster who constantly tries to fix her up with her brother, but Dorothea plans to leave and move in with a snobby art teacher who has classier digs – and there she can prepare for her delusional nuptials. Dreamy Dorothea is forced to face reality as she’s caught between worlds in this funny and compassionate play.
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
In this honest and affecting play, an alcoholic painter is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Holed up his Tokyo hotel room, he tries to develop a new style and revive his career. Downstairs in the lounge, his promiscuous wife crudely tries to seduce the Japanese bartender. Desperate to be free of her husband, but not his money, she begs an art dealer to take the artist back to New York.
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