page_title: Sweet Bird of Youth
section_title: Production history
hierarchical_section_title: Sweet Bird of Youth / Production history
caption_attribution_description: Slovenščina: Tennessee Williams, Mila ptica mladosti, Drama SNG v Ljubljani. Na fotografiji: Bert Sotlar (Chance Wayne), Sava Sever (Princesa Kosmonopolis).
context_page_description: Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had in his youth: primarily, his old girlfriend, whose father had run him out of town years before. The play was written for Tallulah Bankhead, a good friend of Williams.
  Sweet Bird of Youth originated around 1956 as two plays: a two-character version of the final play featuring only Chance and the Princess, and a one-act play titled The Pink Bedroom that was later developed into Act Two of the play, featuring Boss Finley and his family.
caption: The play by the Ljubljana Drama Theatre in 1961
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