The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays (New Directions Paperbook)
"These plays are a welcome addition to the Williams library, and this volume receives them beautifully, with a warm foreword by Terrence McNally, and a brief yet detailed scholarly appendix to each play by Thomas Keith."                                                                  --Benjamin Morris,Southern Quarterly"I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays(1973) is a mind-bending play-within-a-play that served as a study for the laterVieux Carré."                                                       --Garrett Eisler,American Theatre Magazine"These new "fantasies" (as Williams called them) span the arc of hislong career, affording a view of his transformation from young neophyte finding his voice tomaster craftsman at the height of his powers."                                                                                      --Nick Coccoma, Full Stop“Within his early one-acts there are intriguing prototypes of characters  and seeds of ideas Williams developed more fully in his later, larger  dramas.” (The New York Times)“Williams was always confronting the future; a shaman with a typewriter, he dug into the darkest depths of the American psyche in search of dramatic truths.” (Randy Gener - American Theater Magazine)“Just as young painters make their stabs at impressionism and cubism, in  his early one-acts Williams tried his hand with political satire, expressionism, social realism, and even drawing-room comedy.” (Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson)“Reading these plays of the very young Tennessee, then of the successful Tennessee Williams, and finally of the troubled man of the 1970s he had become, we are offered a panoramic yet detailed view of the themes, the demons, and the wit of this iconic playwright.” (Terrence McNally, from his foreword)“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers in a rope.” (Tennessee Williams in a 1950 letter to Elia Kazan)