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Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium)
L'Etage Cabaret
Philadelphia, PA
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Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium)
Absurd, abstract, intriguing, and seldom-performed describe the works taking center stage in the continuing script- in-hand reading series, Into the Absurd: Readings and Conversation presented by The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, the Philadelphia-based theater company whose mission is to present absurdist theater to audiences in the Philadelphia region.

Featuring:

Sonja Robson
Kirsten Quinn
Jessica Foley
Tina Brock

Directed by Tina Brock

L'Etage Cabaret, 6th & Bainbridge Streets, above Beau Monde Creperie

This is a free event, donations are welcome, reservations encouraged as seating is limited.  

Set in St. Louis in the mid-1930s, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur  focuses on four women struggling for a sense of identity and independence. Dorothea, a deluded Blanche DuBois-like middle-aged civics teacher at the local high school, fantasizes her cad of a beau, school principal T. Ralph Ellis, is really Prince Charming after allowing him to seduce her in the back seat of his car. Her slovenly but good-hearted hard-of-hearing roommate Bodey unrelentingly urges Dottie to strike up a relationship with her portly, fashion-challenged, cigar-chomping twin brother Buddy. Sophie Gluck, a German immigrant manic-depressive mourning the loss of her beloved mother, is another tenant in the building, and Helena is Dottie's upscale and haughty friend and colleague.

"tender, poignant and measurably human"
-- The New York Times

"This is not your usual Tennessee tourist trip... it is sweet, honest, compassionate, different and totally enjoyable."
-- The New York Post

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911  February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama.

After years of obscurity, he became suddenly famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), closely reflecting his own unhappy family background. This heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). His later work attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences, and alcohol and drug dependence further inhibited his creative output. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Much of Williams' most acclaimed work was adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Location

L'Etage Cabaret (View)
624 South 6th Street (above Beau Monde)
Philadelphia, PA 19147
United States

Categories

Arts > Theatre

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: No

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