A Trio of Tennessee Williams
(The Fat Man’s Wife, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
& 27 Wagons Full of Cotton), 2025 -
The Questors Theatre, London
Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham
The Redgrave, Bristol
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
The Roxy, Edinburgh
William Borlase, Marlow
The Rialto Theatre, Brighton Fringe
Corran Halls, Oban
The AROS, Skye
The Old Well Theatre, Moffat
Birchvale Theatre, Dalbeattie
Edinburgh Fringe
Fox and Hound Theatre present A Trio of Tennessee Williams, featuring three of Williams’ lesser known works:
The Fat Man’s Wife
New Year’s, 1938. Vera and husband Joe, an influential theatre producer, return from a fashionable party. Joe, an irrepressible type, has had the better time of the two, whiling away the hours with the bold and beautiful of Broadway. An exciting young playwright, Dennis, has paid court to Vera, and decided to quit New York for Acapulco wanting Vera to join him, steering by the stars.
Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
A couple find themselves in a cycle of deprivation. With ravaged appearances, the scene between them is one of eternal repetition, where emotions are worn out and the hopelessly unalterable is accepted. He recounts his fractured tales, passed around like a dirty postcard, whilst She dreams of disappearing with the wind.
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
In desperate times, are the rules different? On the Meighan’s Farm, in 1933, Flora witnesses a neighbour’s cotton gin burn down. Jake and Flora play out his sickly sweet game of obedience, but can Flora play along? The next day, Jake introduces Flora to Silva, manager of the cotton gin, and bids her make him comfortable. Do two wrongs make a right in this disturbing look at abuse and how one woman may find her silver lining?