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5.0
I think I've found a new favorite Williams play with Suddenly Last Summer -- my old one had always been Cat on a Hot Tin Roof due to Liz Taylor and Paul Newman as well as Burl Ives. Anyway, after having to constantly listen to my mother rave about SLS every time TCM showed the movie, I decided to pick up a copy and see what all the fuss was about.
As with his other plays of of the South, these two are powerful masterworks if not short of controversial as with Suddenly Last Summer's themes of homosexuality, madness, and supposed cannibalism. Orpheus is a powerful reworking of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice using an everyday setting of a southern general store/confectionery to explore themes of love, death, race, and adultery. It's a shame this work isn't performed as much as some of his other better known works. A must read for everyone.
As with his other plays of of the South, these two are powerful masterworks if not short of controversial as with Suddenly Last Summer's themes of homosexuality, madness, and supposed cannibalism. Orpheus is a powerful reworking of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice using an everyday setting of a southern general store/confectionery to explore themes of love, death, race, and adultery. It's a shame this work isn't performed as much as some of his other better known works. A must read for everyone.
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