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Thursday Afternoons January 22nd & 29th, February 5th & 12th 2-4pm (IN PERSON)
During several summers in the 1940’s, Tennessee Williams wrote all or parts of some of his most well known works on the Cape. From THE GLASS MENAGERIE, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and others in between, Provincetown was the artistic muse and the birthplace of some of the American theater’s most astoundingly significant works of art, by one of its most prolific and important playwrights. In this course, we will examine Williams’ connection to Provincetown, plays he worked on in town, film adaptations of these plays, and explore others of his works influenced by his time on the Outer Cape. Through play scenes, film clips, texts by Williams scholars, we will immerse ourselves in 1940’s Provincetown and how it shaped WIlliams’ work, life and career. You may even be cast in a scene or two as we read from the plays! (acting experience not required). Taught by newcomer to Open University Tennessee Williams expert Alston Brown.
Thursday Afternoons January 22nd & 29th, February 5th & 12th 2-4pm (IN PERSON)
During several summers in the 1940’s, Tennessee Williams wrote all or parts of some of his most well known works on the Cape. From THE GLASS MENAGERIE, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, and others in between, Provincetown was the artistic muse and the birthplace of some of the American theater’s most astoundingly significant works of art, by one of its most prolific and important playwrights. In this course, we will examine Williams’ connection to Provincetown, plays he worked on in town, film adaptations of these plays, and explore others of his works influenced by his time on the Outer Cape. Through play scenes, film clips, texts by Williams scholars, we will immerse ourselves in 1940’s Provincetown and how it shaped WIlliams’ work, life and career. You may even be cast in a scene or two as we read from the plays! (acting experience not required). Taught by newcomer to Open University Tennessee Williams expert Alston Brown.