Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?

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Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?
Written by Tennessee Williams
Date premiered24 January 1980 [1]
Place premiered Tennessee Williams Performing Arts Center [2]
Original language English
Genreshort play [3]

Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? is a short play by Tennessee Williams, premiering on 24 January 1980 at the Tennessee Williams Performing Arts Center, Key West, Florida. [4]

Although the play was written but unpublished in 1969, [5] it was not staged until January 1980, when the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, situated on the campus of Florida Keys Community College, presented it as their opening production. [6] [7] It is included in The Traveling Companion and Other Plays , [8] a collection of experimental plays by Williams, published by New Directions in 2008 in New York. [9]

References

  1. Robert Gross (19 September 2014). Tennessee Williams: A Casebook. Taylor & Francis. pp. 14–. ISBN   978-1-135-67361-1.
  2. Greta Heintzelman; Alycia Smith Howard (14 May 2014). Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams. Infobase Publishing. pp. 330–. ISBN   978-1-4381-0856-8.
  3. John Lahr (22 September 2014). Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh. W. W. Norton. pp. 389–. ISBN   978-0-393-24712-1.
  4. Roudane (11 December 1997). The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams . Cambridge University Press. pp.  23–. ISBN   978-0-521-49883-8.
  5. Harold Bloom (2009). Tennessee Williams, Updated Edition. Infobase Publishing. pp. 77–. ISBN   978-1-4381-1349-4.
  6. Tennessee Williams at Tripsmarter.com
  7. The Book Lover's Guide to Florida at Google Books
  8. Annette J. Saddik (26 January 2015). Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess. Cambridge University Press. pp. 130–. ISBN   978-1-107-07668-6.
  9. Stephen Bottoms; Philip Kolin; Michael Hooper (25 September 2014). A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 278–. ISBN   978-1-4725-3244-2.