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Book SynopsisA wonderful collection of never-before-collected one-acts: “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope” (Tennessee Williams).
Trade Review"Within his early one-acts there are intriguing prototypes of characters and seeds of ideas Williams developed more fully in his later, larger dramas." -- The New York Times
"Williams was always confronting the future; a shaman with a typewriter, he dug into the darkest depths of the American psyche in search of dramatic truths." -- Randy Gener - American Theater Magazine
"Just as young painters make their stabs at impressionism and cubism, in his early one-acts Williams tried his hand with political satire, expressionism, social realism, and even drawing-room comedy." -- Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson
"The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope." -- Tennessee Williams in a 1950 letter to Elia Kazan
"Reading these plays of the very young Tennessee, then of the successful Tennessee Williams, and finally of the troubled man of the 1970s he had become, we are offered a panoramic yet detailed view of the themes, the demons, and the wit of this iconic playwright." -- Terrence McNally, from his foreword
