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I Can't Imagine Tomorrow

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

In a departure from Tennessee Williams's earlier works, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow employs silence and fragmented discourse in order to express the themes of human dependence, fear and loss.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for all audiences, Adult

Details

Summary

The characters "One" and "Two" are the only friends of one-another. They carry out the same evening ritual of card playing and watching the news on TV in an effort to avoid any real confrontation. "One's" physical deterioration and approaching death forces her to prepare for the inevitable. "Two" resists this change and his consuming fear of losing "One" leads to an emotional breakdown.

A part of the collection The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. 7

History

I Can't Imagine Tomorrow premiered on television in 1970. It received it's first stage production in Bar Harbor, ME in 1971.

Cast Attributes
ONE - Two's only friend. Female
TWO - One's only friend. Male
  • Time Period 1970s, Not Applicable
  • Setting In One's home.
  • Additional Features No intermission
  • Duration 30 minutes
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

Media

REVIEWS

"In a departure from his earlier works, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow employs silence and fragmented discourse in order to express the themes of human dependence, fear and loss." - Playbill.com

Music

  • Musical Style N/A (Not a musical)
  • Vocal DemandsN/A (Not a musical)
  • Chorus Size N/A (Not a musical)

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “ ...
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