NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES
Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, Canada)VANCOUVER PREMIERE
NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES:
A STAGED READING
By Tenessee Williams
Directed by Jack Paterson
Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, Canada)
Press
“…a tension filled performance!…This is a powerful and well produced stage reading of this compelling play…If this is what Mad Duck productions is about let us hope that there will be many more of this high calibre.”
Jane Penistan, reviewvancouver.org
About
In 1938, Tom Williams read a newspaper article reporting a riot and prisoner torture in a Philadelphia County prison. With Nightingales he would begin the metamorphosis from Tom to Tennessee, though he would wait almost another decade for the professional and artistic success of A Streetcar Named Desire.
This is a raw, sprawling dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937. The sympathetic treatment of blacks and homosexuals is revolutionary for this time and may explain why the play remained un-processed for sixty years.
Creative Team
Featuring (in speaking order): Brent Clark, Paul Becket, Jennifer Ritchie, Celia Duval, David Purvis, Patrick Maloughney, Kevin Spenst, Phil Trasolini, Todd McGillivay, Ed Osei-Appiah, Chris Bizzochi & John Paterson
Set Design by Allan Frisk | Lighting Design by Jon Popkin | Stage Managed by Kirsti Mikoda
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