Stairs to the Roof
A Plays, Drama, Theatre book. Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled...
Sixty years ago a young Tennessee Williams wrote a play looking toward the year 2001. Stairs to the Roofis a rare and different Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, anexperiment in meta-theater, with a touch of early science fiction.Tennessee Williams called Stairs to the Roof "a prayer for thewild of heart who are kept in cages" and dedicated it to "all the littlewage earners of the world." It reflects the would-be poet's "season inhell" during the Depression when he had to quit college to type orderseight hours a day at the International Shoe Factory in St. Louis.Stairsis Williams' revenge, expressed through his alter ego, Benjamin Murphy,the clerk who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock, themonotony of his eight-to-five job, and all the dehumanizing forces of anincreasingly mechanized and commercial society. Ben's swift-movingseries of fantastic adventures culminate in an escape from the ordinarythat is an endorsement of the American dream. In 1941 with the world...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780811214353 / 811214354
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Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces. Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof // A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof //
Loved this play. I think it's up there with my favorites now. This is one of Tennessee Williams' earliest plays. His writing/style haven't totally matured yet in it, which I thought made it kind of cool to read. The message is an idealistic one, but while reading it, I really just wanted to quit my job and run away to Las Vegas and become a professional mermaid or something. Certainly not Williams' best, but it's close to my heart for many reasons -- It takes place in St. Louis, where he had a nervous breakdown holding a corporate-like job, the main character hides in the bathroom and writes poetry during work, he bitches about Wash U, it actually has strange fantastical elements to it you don't see in...
