Plays Inspired by the Poems of Tennessee Williams

In celebration of his 96th birthday, Blue Rose Productions presents a reading of Plays Inspired by the Poems of Tennessee Williams, directed by the company’s Artistic Director, Erma Duricko and Tim Brown. The evening consist of new short plays by Blue Roses playwrights Kara Corthron, John Yearley, Tom Wolfe, and Gary Giovannetti with a special guest appearance by actress Tandy Cronyn. Sun Burst, a short unpublished play by Tennessee Williams, is also presented as a co-production with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

Sun Burst, a short play written by Tennessee Williams two years before his death, takes its name from a famous diamond that sits on the finger of a semi-retired leading lady. The diva is held captive in her hotel room by two randy Italian gigolos. Can she outwit the boys by quoting lines from her famous Shakespearean roles? Unpublished and never before performed, the text is a humorous poetic fantasia on bondage and, perhaps, release.