The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers
Written By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Natsu Onoda Power
Virtual Theater Event
Streaming on our YouTube Channel between December 18, 2020 and January 14, 2021
Starring: Dylan Arredondo, Melissa Carter, and Jared H Graham
The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers is directed by Natsu Onoda Power, winner of two Helen Hayes Awards for The Lathe of Heaven at Spooky Action last year. Now redesigned for our online stage, this innovative event mixes Japanese kami shibai style street theater with storytelling performers. Subtitled “A Japanese fantasy,” The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers has its head in the stars and both feet on the ground. It’s a punchy send-up of love, the perils of first impressions, and our earthly attempts to touch something eternal. Presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.*
Written By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Natsu Onoda Power
Virtual Theater Event
Streaming on our YouTube Channel between December 18, 2020 and January 14, 2021
Starring: Dylan Arredondo, Melissa Carter, and Jared H Graham
The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers is directed by Natsu Onoda Power, winner of two Helen Hayes Awards for The Lathe of Heaven at Spooky Action last year. Now redesigned for our online stage, this innovative event mixes Japanese kami shibai style street theater with storytelling performers. Subtitled “A Japanese fantasy,” The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers has its head in the stars and both feet on the ground. It’s a punchy send-up of love, the perils of first impressions, and our earthly attempts to touch something eternal. Presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.*
|
|
|
|
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS BIOGRAPHY
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Other plays include SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, CAMINO REAL, BABY DOLL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, ORPHEUS DESCENDING, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, and THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY. Tennessee Williams died in 1983. |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BIOGRAPHY
The University of the South, a national ranked liberal arts college and Episcopal seminary, is the beneficiary of the Tennessee Williams’ estate, including the copyrights to all his works. This gift was made as a memorial to Williams’ grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin, who studied at the University’s seminary in 1895. The Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund is used to support the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, and the School of Letters. The Fund also supports scholarships for students who wish to pursue creative writing and fellowships which are granted annually to budding playwrights or authors. Those fellows include Ann Patchett, Claire Messud, Tony Early, and Mark Richard. The Tennessee Williams Center houses the University’s theater department, and a portion of the Fund supports the department and its theatrical productions. Visit www.sewanee.edu for more information. |
*© University of the South 2020. This Live Streaming was made by special arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and the University of the South. All rights in the Play and the Live Streaming are strictly reserved and no use whatsoever shall be made of the Play or the Live Streaming without the rights holders express prior permission. This performance is authorised for non-commercial use only. Neither the Play nor the Live Streaming may be copied, distributed, broadcast or otherwise exploited in whole or in part in any media now known or hereafter developed. To do so shall constitute contravention of copyright law.
