Tennessee Williams & Censorship

For our 15th Season, the Festival intended to focus on freedom of expression as a complement to Provincetown’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ Landing.

In the year of the COVID pandemic, the number of live performances was reduced.

Working with Provincetown officials and adhering to local and state guidelines for safe gatherings, the Festival found ways to stage live performances:

• The Municipal Abattoir by Tennessee Williams performed as a Hitchcock thriller on a giant sand dune.

• Longing Lasts Longer - Penny Arcade performed her rock ’n’ roll manifesto outside at Provincetown’s Bas Relief.

• Cut Blanche - Jeremy Lawrence shared what the League of Decency demanded be cut from the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire.

• Tennessee Talks: Revolution - a reading in a public park of Williams’s calls to political action.

Additional plays investigating the theme of Tennessee Williams & Censorship were staged in different parts of the country during the scheduled days of the Festival.