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Curator's Tour: Becoming Tennessee Williams
March 24, 2011
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Charlotte Canning, exhibition curator and Professor of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin, leads a gallery tour of Becoming Tennessee Williams on Thursday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center.
With his plays The Glass Menagerie (1945) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), the American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) reinvented the theater. Drawing on the Ransom Center’s extensive collection of Tennessee Williams manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and artwork, this centenary exhibition explores the idea, act, and process of artistic creation, illuminating how Thomas Lanier Williams became Tennessee Williams. Williams asserted that most of his plays dealt with the “wild at heart kept in cages,” a description, perhaps, of his own life. Throughout the exhibition, Williams’s personal biography is compared and contrasted with the dramatic structure of his plays.
If you are unable to attend the curator's tour, free docent-led tours of this exhibition are offered Tuesdays at noon, Saturdays at 2 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. The exhibition runs through July 31.
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March 24, 2011Times:
7:00PM-8:00PM
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