Cried the Phoenix

An Evening of Three Rarely Staged One-Act Plays by

Tennessee Williams

A carnivalesque presentation of a few short rarely staged plays by the great Tennessee Williams about love, sex, longing, writing, losing, women, men, people, criminality, poverty, sinking, singing, railroads, D.H. Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, children, movies, theater, poetry, New Orleans, New York City, and America. Between each play will be various remarkable acts, in the spirit of a traveling show. This production is a celebration of the theater, particularly the low-budget and the dimestore-bizarre which reaches––often wretchedly––towards truth. As Williams tells us: “The biologist will tell you that progress is the result of mutations. Mutations are another word for freaks. For God's sake let's have a little more freakish behavior––not less…In my opinion art is a kind of anarchy, and the theater is a province of art.”These shows are fundraiser events, meaning they are lower-budget than our main-stage presentations, but made with the same fearlessness which defines all our work.