Suddenly last summer

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Suddenly last summer , English title Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1958 premiered drama of the American writer Tennessee Williams (1911-1983).

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The play, which premiered in 1958, focuses on the rich Violet Venable , a widow who has been bragging about her son Sebastian for years . When he disappears and Mrs. Venable learns of his gruesome cannibalism murder, she consults the experienced psychiatrist Dr. Cukrowicz . Mrs. Venables niece Catherine , who was with Sebastian on the day of the murder (he was eaten by prostitutes on the beach ), wants to deal with her trauma and goes to the meetings with her aunt. Violet Venable requires Cukrowicz , Catherine "the hideous story out of her head to cut" ...

Productions

Broadway stars such as Hortense Alden (Violet Venable), Anne Meacham (Catherine) and Robert Lansing (Cukrowicz) played in the world premiere .

In Canada , Denise Verville received the Prix ​​Paul Hébert in 2000 for her performance as Violet Venable. A highly acclaimed German production (by Pia Hänggis with Cordula Trantow , Stephanie Kellner , Jacques Breuer , Senta Auth and Kevin Kölker ) was shown in 2006.

Film adaptations

literature

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  • Suddenly last summer . New Directions, New York 1958 (first edition).
  • Suddenly last summer. from Tennessee Williams . German by Hans Sahl . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1960 a. ö., last in 1963, without ISBN
    • Licensed edition: Tennessee Williams: End Station Sehnsucht and other dramas. Book club Donauland, Vienna no year (1978).
    • also in: Tennessee Williams: Master Dramas: The Glass Menagerie, End Station Sehnsucht, The Tattooed Rose, The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3103922019 .

Secondary literature

  • Robert F. Gross: Consuming Hart: Sublimity and Gay Poetics in "Suddenly Last Summer" . In: Theater Journal 47: 2, 1995, pp. 229-251.
  • Paul J. Hurley: Suddenly Last Summer as "Morality Play". In: Modern Drama 8: 4, 1965, pp. 392-402.
  • Brian Parker: A Tentative Stemma for Drafts and Revisions of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer (1958) . In: Modern Drama 41: 2, 1998, pp. 303-326.
  • Annette J. Saddik: The (Un) Represented Fragmentation of the Body in Tennessee Williams's Desire and the Black Masseur and Suddenly Last Summer . In: Modern Drama 41: 3, 1998, pp. 347-354.
  • Janice Siegel: Tennessee Williams '"Suddenly Last Summer" and Euripides' "Bacchae" . In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11: 4, 2005, pp. 538-570.
  • Andrew Sorer: Self-Consuming Artifacts: Power, Performance and the Body in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer . In: Modern Drama 38: 3, 1995, pp. 336-347.