Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws

And Other One-act Plays

• Author(s): Tennessee Williams,
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Pages: 197
• ISBN_10: 0811225569
  ISBN_13: 9780811225564
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / American / General , Fiction / Psychological , Fiction / Short Stories (single author) , FICTION / Dystopian ,

Description:... "This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, witty and wild late plays written from 1971 to 1982--Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws; a pair of nonagenarians struggle to cope on the Queen Elizabeth II in Lifeboat Drill; the poet Hart Crane makes peace with his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle; and madness bewitches the occupants during a nursing home strike in This Is the Peaceable Kingdom. Previously unpublished late plays include Aimez-Vous Ionesco?, a parody of the Theater of the Absurd; A Recluse and His Guest, a fable about a traveling woman in a dark world who can only go forward, never back; and Ivan's Widow, in which a psychiatrist and his young female patient engage in sexual power play that leads to murder."--