Now the cats with jeweled claws
Subtitle: and other one-act plays
By: Tennessee Williams ; edited, with an introduction, by Thomas Keith
Contributors: Keith, Thomas, 1961- editor, writer of introduction
Series: New Directions paperbook -- 1346; New Directions paperbook -- 1346.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780811225564
Subjects: American drama
Work titles: Plays
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 Previously unpublished late plays include Aimez-Vous Ionesco?, a parody of the Theater of the Absurd; A Recluse and His Guest, a fable about a traveling woman in a dark world who can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."--
Notes: "Now the cats with jeweled claws and other one-act plays is published by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee"--Title page verso.

Five previously unpublished plays include A recluse and his guest, Ivan's widow, Aimez-vous Ionesco, Once in a lifetime, The strange play.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A recluse and his guest; title: Now the cats with jeweled claws; title: Steps must be gentle; title: Ivan's widow; title: This is the peaceable kingdom; title: Aimez-vous Ionesco?; title: The demolition downtown; title: Lifeboat drill; title: Once in a lifetime; title: The strange play.