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The Killer Chicken and the Closet QueenSteven is a lawyer and it’s suggested that he is gay. His law firm is homophobic. &he lies to his mom that he has a gf(Sue). Since his mom decides to visit…. Steven asks his boss’s young wife to come &bring firm for brunch. Clove(boss’s wife’s 16 year old brother) comes and decides to drug everyone with Quaalude. (including Steven & his mom) and the play ends with him planning to take all Steven’s Mom’s $.
Themes: homophobic, pedophilia, sexuality, family relationships, use of birdsThe Poet (Short Story)Published in One Armand other stories:
A Man (called The Poetic) drinks alcohol on the beach and is an evangelical. One day he gets drunk and calls a ton of children to listen to his story. The next day he dies and they find his skeleton and drink his homemade liquor and have sex on the beach.
Themes: addiction, sexual violence, deathThe Eccentricities of a NightingaleWritten in Rome.
REWRITE OF SUMMER IN SMOKE ( Began as short story Yellow Bird)
Begins/ends on 4th of July Alma(The nightingale of the Delta… also a ministers daughter) prone to bad heart palpitations. She is persistent on getting with her neighbor John Buchanan. (They end up getting it on at some point @ a hotel). Alma then starts having casual sex with random people. John’s mom doesn’t want her to get with her son.
Themes: morality
Yellow Bird is first part (portrayal) of Alma’s life
Summer in Smoke s 2nd part
This part is the 3rd part of her life. Rose TattooFilm adaptation starring Ana Maganani & Bert Lancaster
Obsessive love of a old seamstress women(Serafina)who was in love with her dead husband who had a rose tattoo. She’s crazy and she locks up her daughter (Rosa). When a trucker who looks just like her old husband comes she has a strong sexual urge. They end up having sex at the end of the play. Rosa’s sexual hungers are awakened but is promised to a sailor. There are roses everywhere. Very crazy… sounds of orgasms and Serafina touches herself. A Perfect Analysis given by a ParrotSet in a tavern in St. Lois
Bessy and Flora ( two 40 years old here for a wacky national convention for their weird organization.. Son of Mars) They were separated by the 2 men they were travelling with. The two stop in the bar to discuss men and each other’s appearances. They are talking bad about each other. One says they had their fortune told by a bird. Men from auxiliary come in and it ends. Talk to me like the Rain and Let me ListenA man & a women live together in Midtown. The man wakes up from a night of crazy drinking. The women sits in a chair and says she was looking for the man the night prior. The man recounts his night that was full of abuse by strangers when he was drunk. The man says he feels lost and she wants the women to talk to him. The women goes on about wanting to go away fro awhile. But instead they go to bed together. Orpheus DecendingRewrite of the Battle of Angels
The movie is called Fugitive Kind (Ana Magnani & Brando)
Also made into an on TV Movie… and also an Opera
Directed by Harold Clurman
Plot: Set in a small southern town in an convenient store
Jabe Torrence is owner (dying). Bought his wife (Lady) when she was 18.
Lady’s dad had an orchard that he accidentally sold to a black man. It was then burned down.
Val is a man who Lady hires( he wears snake skin)…. doesn’t feel safe in county @ night.
Lady was pregnant wid a lover.. but had an abortion. Lady lets him stay with her. Val takes her $ from cash box but puts it back.
Lady says she left the $ on purpose to see if she can trust him. They end up having sex. Val says he loves Lady…… then she be pregnant. Her husband appears and shoots Lady!!! (he’s pissed) Then they burn Val to death. Sweet Bird of YouthDirected by Elia Kazan.
A movie with Paul Newman & Geraldine Page (also in play).
TV version with Elizabeth Taylor.
Chance Wayne comes home to St. Cloud, Florida because he wanted to be a movie star but isn’t successful. He brings with him Princess Cos. She is old and crazy. Lots of drugs and alcohol. He actually wants to see his ex and true love Heavenly. He dad is basically the mob boss of St. Cloud. Chance was a prostitute and gave Heavenly a disease. So her daddy hates him. He tries to impress the town with his fake $ that is really Princess’s. He blck mails her to put him in a movie. Tom (Boss Finley’s son) ends up killing him in the end of the play. And Princess gets a call that her movie was a hit so she gets ready to leave. Night of the IguanaBased of Poem (How still the Lemon Branch)
Film version with Ava Gardner and Richard Berton
Performed in Italy
Maxine runs a hotel (Cosa Verde… recently widowed) Group of baptist women come to Mexico and a Minister(Shannon) was sent to institution is giving bible tours &refused. to take them to their hotel. The minister makes an advance at a 16 year old girl. Everyone is pissed. Meanwhile Hannah, A sketch artist is traveling with her famous poet father(really old & can’t see) tries to come to Maxine’s hotel. Maxine is jealous of Hannah and tells her not to try to get at Shannon. Basically Maxine ties Shannon up to hammock until he calms down. Hannah is not trying to have sex tho. At the end Nono finishes his final poem and dies. Shannon sets free the Iguana and wants to eat it later. Maxine and Shannon swim together.
Themes: Religion, Period of AdjustmentFilm adaptation with Jane Fonda
Joe Mezliner
Set in 1950’s in Tennessee. 2 men who hate the woman they married. Ralph is married Dorthia (have a 3 year old child) George (PTSD Korea).. married to Isabella for a day. Two couples come together at Xmas eve because George brings Isabella over because he is already done with her. Dorthia wants a divorce and is gonna take everything. George and Ralph quit their jobs to go live in Texas and start a farm. Wives are happy and they all move down there.
Themes: Ralph/George has homo undertonesSomething UnspokenSet in Louisiana. Ms. Cornelia Scott( 60 year old) and widowed secretary.. Grace (40 years old) Cornelia wants to get appointed to a position in Confederate daughters. These women are maybe lesbian. 15 year anniversary of them living together. Cornelia doesn’t get appointed and is pissed. Grace goes into the other room and says how much she likes the roses.
Similar to a short story ” Happy August the 10th” 2 Character PlayRevised as Outcry
Has many layers.
1st: Felice & Clare (acting team) find themselves abandoned by their acting troupe. Felice writes a play and they go to perform it. Reality and Illusion blur. (Reflects violent past). They realize if they don’t like the truth they can change the plot of their play. In the Bar of a Tokyo HotelTakes place in this bar and we observe conversations.
Mark.. artist (about to have mental break down) and Mariam are having marriage issues. She constantly flirts with Japanese bartender. She tries to call Lenard to come get Mark so she can travel alone. Mark dies suddenly and Mariam isn’t even sad.
Gay undertones between Mark and Lenard.
Fat Hawaiian woman (also in 27 Wagons & Joy Rio)ConfessionalLater turned into Small Craft Warnings
Everything that happens is heard but not actually seen. We observe characters in coastal bar in California. All the characters are really poor. Each characters take a minute in the spot life to confess how lonely they actually feel. The Milktrain doesn’t Stop here AnymoreFilm adaptation Boom (starring Elizabeth Taylor Richard Berton)
Set in coast of Italy in Summer.
Mrs. Goforth (wealthy older women in denial of dying) Fances Black (Blacky is secretary) Christopher Flanders (poet) comes to visit and gets attacked by her dogs. Blacky and Chris hit it off. Chris helps people die… that’s kinda his job. Mrs. Goforth starts to die and is naked but Chris isn’t interested. She then dies. Chris and Blacky have wine.
Theme: homosexualityGnadiges FrauleinShabby bunk house in an imaginary island.
Polly is a reporter and tries to get info from old lady named Molly for story. Molly runs a boarding house. 2 tenants… Gnadiges Fraulein (Vaudville performer) & Indian Joe(Polly falls for)
Birds eventually gauge out Fraulein’s eyes.
Has a lot of birdsThe MutilatedXmas eve in New Orleans
Trinket who lives in a gross hotel. Celeste is her prostitute friend. Trinket had a falling out because she was gonna tell everyone about Trinket’s mutilated breast. Then the two of them try to get with two sailor men. Trinket tries but he gets grossed out by her mutilation. Then Celeste and her just go home and have a religious experience with the Virgin Mary and Trinket’s breast disappears. Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws1 act play. 2 scenes.
Set in Restaurant in NYC right across from department stores that were full of after xmas shopping. Madge and Bea (late 30s) being casual bitches to each other and everyone around them. The waitress is pregnant. And the manager is a queen. 2 gay hustlers enter. One gets head in the bathroom from the queen manager. One dies (brains splatter on road) Prego waitress quits, and other man throws up and goes to bathroom. Manager is left alone on stage and delivers speech. Knocks on door and young man says who are you? the Manager says your future. Shall we go?
Just like Blanche’s exitKirche, Kuche, KinderNot published until 2008
Translates to Church, Kitchen, and Children in German. Well known German slogan.. referring to role of women. Used during Nazi times.
The Man sitting in wheelchair in church. Ms. Rose comes in to play organ for him. In Kitchen the wife of the man and the daughter of Minister reflect with her dad about her fat mom dying. The minister hits is daughter over the head. (They are trying to kill each other). The wife goes to see the Man and sees him doing cartwheels. He is rumored to be a closet homo. She tries to kill him with ax.
99 year old woman visits the wife and complains the minister raped her and she is pregnant. The old lady offers the Man a *******, The kids are being expelled from Kindergarten and the Man looks at their privates and tells them to go out into the city to be prostitutes. The minister rapes the 99 year old. The kids return and say they gave all their sex money away for love. The play ends with Wife asking audience questions and kids circling her. Demolition DowntownMr. and Mrs. Lane begin the play arguing about if they should know each others whereabouts at all time. Their is chaos outside. Mrs Lanes tries to see if the quickie mart is still open. The new rulers of this place have caused the Apocalypse. Mr Lane is mad at her for taking the car. Mrs. Lane is in denial. Their children return from school explaining that the school has been captured and the teachers have been taken away in trucks. The parents don’t care. The kids say they were molested too. Mrs Kane (their neighbor) comes over and says Mrs. Lane and her should go seduce the men high up to escape. A Lovely Sunday for CrevecoeurSet in St. Louis mid 30s
Dorthia middle age physics teacher (like Blanche) IS obsessed with the idea that Ralph (the Principal) and her are gonna be in love… they have sex in his car. Bodey prepares picnic for Dorthia and him at Crevecoeur. While Dorthia waits for Ralph to call. Haleyna and Dorthia are getting a new apartment. Ralph has been engaged this whole time. So Dorthia is down to hang with Bodey and Buddy and maybe marry the latter. Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le MondeTells the story of Mint a delicate man who is paralyzed below the waist and lives in the attic of Madame Le Monde’s house. He can only move from grabbing hook to hook. The play starts when The boy takes Mint off his hook and goes and does dirty stuff. Mint wants to have an old classmate Hall over for tea. Hall eats all the food and won’t help mint even tho Mint haven’t eaten in days. The boy rapes Mint again. Madame Le Monde comes up and kills all three.
An absurdest version of Glass MenagerieThe Chalky White SubstanceFollows Mark and Luke in a post apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. A chalkie white substance envelopes the land and it is hard to breath. It is the powdered bones of God World is ruled by a totalitarian. Mark is Luke’s protector. There is a sexual relationship between the two of them. Luke tells mark that he has a secret illegal water source. Mark hands Luke over to the authorities. Mark will then get benefits from the authorities. The play ends with Mark pulling Luke off to his demise. The Traveling CompanionWritten in 81 but is finished in 83 by his assistant after he died.
Tells a story of Vieux (older writer) and Beau (young hustler) who is his new traveling companion. Vieux has arranged for only 1 bed in the room. Beau is pissed. Vieux says that Beau knew what he was getting himself into. At the end Beau stays because Vieux arranges for a cot to be put in the room and he pays for Beau’s guitar that was left at a pawn shop.
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