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Baby Doll
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 13m
Tennessee Williams, Lucy Bailey
by Tennessee Williams
A new stage version devised and originally directed by Lucy
Bailey
Lucy Bailey's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' notorious screenplay.
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Cast Size
2w, 13m -
Subgenre
Period -
Target Audience
Adult
Accolades
- 1957 Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written Drama
Details
Summary
Archie Lee Meighan's Mississippi cotton gin business is floundering in the face of Silva Vacarro's Syndicate Gin; to this frustration is added the sexual unavailability of his voluptuous young wife Baby Doll. Lucy Bailey's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' notorious screenplay, with an ingenious three-storey house setting by Bunny Christie, played at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1999 and the National Theatre, London, in 2000, garnering rave reviews in both venues.
History
Baby Doll premiered at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in October 1999 in Birmingham, UK under the direction of Lucy Bailey.
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period 1950s
- Setting A house and yard; doctor's office; cafe. MIssissippi. 1950s
- Features Period Costumes
Media
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
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Cathy Thomas
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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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