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2006 - Tennessee Williams & Provincetown
The first Festival was held September 28 to October 1, 2006, and presented plays Williams worked on in Provincetown, including The Glass Menagerie and the world premiere of The Parade, Williams' 1940 gay romance, along with 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper from Mississippi State University, This Property Is Condemned from The University of the South, and scenes from the Hong Kong Repertory Theater's Cantonese The Eccentricities of a Nightingale.
Work adapted from Williams shown at the first Festival included opera and ballet versions of A Streetcar Named Desire thanks to Atlanta's Capital City Opera and Lowell Smith from The Dance Theater of Harlem. Williams' poetry was set to music in David Landon's The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer, Williams' Provincetown diaries inspired Carson Efird Dance Theater's The Road to Paradise, and the Festival screened a film adaptation of Williams' short story The Yellow Bird directed by Faye Dunaway.
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Past Festival Productions of Tennessee Williams’ Works:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (2006, 2010)
Adam and Eve on a Ferry (2008)
Aimez-Vouz Ionesco? (2015 World Premiere)
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer (2014)
American Gothic (2010 World Premiere)
And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... (2019)
A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot (2016)
A Streetcar Named Desire (2006 film adaptation, 2006 opera adaptation, 2006 ballet adaptation, 2009, 2013 Neo-Benshi adaptation, 2022)
At Liberty (2013 dance/burlesque adaptation)
Auto-da-Fé (2012)
Baby Doll (2006 film adaptation)
Battle of Angels (2021)
Cairo! Shanghai! Bombay! (2013 dance/burlesque adaptation)
Camino Real (2007, 2008)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013, 2022)
Clothes for a Summer Hotel (2009 music adaptation)
Curtains for the Gentleman (2013 World Premiere dance/burlesque adaptation)
Desire of the Black Masseur (2007 French film adaptation, 2008 French film scene adaptation)
Eccentricities of a Nightingale (2006 Cantonese scenes, 2008 Cantonese scenes, 2008 music scene adaptation, 2011 Portuguese adaptation)
Escape (2010)
Gift of an Apple (2012 play adaptation)
Green Eyes (2008 World Premiere, 2011)
Happy August the Tenth (2008 dance adaptation)
Hello from Bertha (2009)
I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow (2007)
I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays (2012)
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (2016)
Kingdom of Earth (2012, 2013)
Kirche Küche Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) (2016)
The Mattress by the Tomato Patch (2015 play adaptation "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" staged reading)
Miss Coynte of Greene (2011 play adaptation staged reading)
Mother Yaws (2020 short story adaptation)
Mr. Paradise (2009, 2017)
Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws (2011)
Once in a Lifetime (2011 World Premiere)
One Arm (2022)
Orpheus Descending (2009 adaptation, 2010, 2011)
Peaceable Kingdom (2022)
Period of Adjustment (2014)
Portrait of a Madonna (2012 Italian adaptation)
Slapstick Tragedy: The Mutilated (2013)
Small Craft Warnings (2016)
Some Problems for the Moose Lodge (2018)
Something Cloudy, Something Clear (2011)
Something Unspoken (2014 dance adaptation)
Steps Must Be Gentle (2018)
Suddenly Last Summer (2006 film adaptation, 2007 film adaptation, 2008 Russian adaptation scenes, 2010 staged reading, 2015)
Summer and Smoke (2008 opera adaptation scenes, 2011 Portuguese adaptation)
Summer at the Lake (2010)
Sunburst (2007 World Premiere; 2011)
Sweet Bird of Youth (2017)
Talisman Roses (2018 World Premiere)
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen (2009, 2017)
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (2012, 2017)
Thank You, Kind Spirit (2009)
The Angel in the Alcove (2019 short story adaptation)
The Case of the Crushed Petunias: A Lyrical Fantasy (2009, 2015 musical adaptation)
The Chalky White Substance (2007)
The Dark Room (2012 Italian adaptation)
The Day on Which a Man Dies (2009, 2015)
The Demolition Downtown (2007, 2021)
The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View (2008 World Premiere)
The Enemy: Time (2009 World Premiere)
The Fugitive Kind (2006 film adaptation)
The Glass Menagerie (2006 scenes, 2012)
The Gnadiges Fraulein (2007, 2017)
The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen (2011 staged reading)
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (2009)
The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers (2019 World Premiere)
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches (2009)
The Magic Tower (2022)
The Migrants (2007 film adaptation)
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (2013, 2015)
The Municipal Abattoir (2007, 2020, 2021)
The Night of the Iguana (2008 Portuguese adaptation scenes, 2019 full production)
The Notebook of Trigorin (2007 adaptation)
The One Exception (2007)
The Parade, or Approaching the End of Summer (2006 World Premiere; 2007, 2011, 2015)
The Pink Bedroom (2009)
The Pronoun “I” (2007 World Premiere)
The Red Devil Battery Sign (2006 documentary film)
The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde (2009 World Premiere)
The Road to Paradise (2007 dance adaptation, 2015 dance adaptation)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2007 three film adaptations)
The Rose Tattoo (2018)
The Strangest Kind of Romance (2009)
The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer (2006 music adaptation, 2007 music adaptation)
The Traveling Companion (2007, 2011)
The Two-Character Play (2011)
The Unsatisfactory Supper (2012 Italian adaptation)
The Yellow Bird (2006 film adaptation)
This Property Is Condemned (2006, 2012 Italian adaptation)
Unsatisfactory Supper (2006)
Vieux Carré (2014, 2022)
Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor? (2021 short story adaptation)
Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily? (2014 dance adaptation)
Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? (2018)