Becoming Tennessee Williams

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu Preview the exhibition "Becoming Tennessee Williams" on display through July 31, 2011 at the Harry Ransom Center.

With his plays "The Glass Menagerie" (1945) and "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), the American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) reinvented the theater.

Drawing on the Harry Ransom Center's extensive collection of Tennessee Williams manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and artwork, this centenary exhibition explores the idea, act, and process of artistic creation, illuminating how Thomas Lanier Williams became Tennessee Williams.

Williams asserted that most of his plays dealt with the "wild at heart kept in cages," a description, perhaps, of his own life.

Throughout the exhibition, Williams's personal biography is compared and contrasted with the dramatic structure of his plays.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Tennessee
• Williams
• Exhibition
• Harry
• Ransom
• Center
• University
• of
• Texas
• at
• Austin