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Small Craft Warnings

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 6m

Tennessee Williams

S mall Craft Warnings centres on a motley group of people gathered in a seedy coastal bar in Southern California.

Small Craft Warnings

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 6m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Not Applicable
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

An expansion of Tennessee Williams's earlier one-act play, Confessional, Small Craft Warnings is a kaleidoscopic pastiche of monologues delivered in a spotlight by each of the characters as the action around them becomes frozen and muted. Through them they reveal their loneliness and the emptiness of their existence.

A part of the collection The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Vol. 5

History

Small Craft Warnings premiered on April 2, 1972 at the off-Broadway Truck and Warehouse Theatre, under the direction of Richard Altman. 

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Performing Groups
LEONA DAWSON - A lusty, needy beautician
BILL MCCORKLE - Her ne'er-do-well live-in lover
DOC - An alcoholic
VIOLET -  A flirt
STEVE - The middle-aged short order cook
MONK - The congenial bartender
QUENTIN - A washed-up screenwriter and homosexual
BOBBY - A cyclist that Quentin picked up on the road, also homosexual.
  • Time Period Not Applicable
  • Setting A seedy coastal bar in Southern California. 
  • Additional Features Not Applicable
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Mild Adult Themes

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REVIEWS

"All the characters seem to be a species unto themselves. Williams is here describing the surviving losers of mankind, the people who pay their dues in suffering and float on life with a modicum of gallant misery. Williams is a writer of enormous compassion- it is a compassion that leads him at times into sentimentality, but it is also a compassion that that opens up doors into bleak and empty hearts." - Clive Barnes, The New York Times 

"Instead of giving us pills, Tennessee Williams hands us a glass, if we would but look in it." - The Telegraph 

Music

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

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Authors

Tennessee Williams

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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