Tennessee Williams once wrote "Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person". This eclectic collection of Tennessee Williams’ rarely performed short plays explores the length we go to in order to make a connection to just one other person in this world and the depths to which we plunge if we fail in doing this.
Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore, an early Blanche DuBois prototype, is comforted by a hung-over Anton Chekhov after a row with her landlady in a cockroach-infested boarding house in the New Orleans French Quarter. Just blocks away a young girl seeks out Mr Paradise, her favourite writer, only to find Jonathan Jones, the man living a life of intense disorder and begs him for a kiss. On the Upper East Side of New York City Nance, a grown woman in a child’s party frock plays out her sexual fantasies with a nude Greek statue coming to life as Vaslav Nijinsky while her mother spends yet another evening entertaining high class gigolos at the Plaza. In the notorious red light district of East St Louis Bertha, a dying whore in a low class bordello, attempts to send one last “Hello” to the one man she has ever loved in her final moments. Welcome to Tennessee Paradise.
Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore, an early Blanche DuBois prototype, is comforted by a hung-over Anton Chekhov after a row with her landlady in a cockroach-infested boarding house in the New Orleans French Quarter. Just blocks away a young girl seeks out Mr Paradise, her favourite writer, only to find Jonathan Jones, the man living a life of intense disorder and begs him for a kiss. On the Upper East Side of New York City Nance, a grown woman in a child’s party frock plays out her sexual fantasies with a nude Greek statue coming to life as Vaslav Nijinsky while her mother spends yet another evening entertaining high class gigolos at the Plaza. In the notorious red light district of East St Louis Bertha, a dying whore in a low class bordello, attempts to send one last “Hello” to the one man she has ever loved in her final moments. Welcome to Tennessee Paradise.