NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES
Mad Duck Theatre Collective (Vancouver, Canada)VANCOUVER PREMIERE
NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES:
A STAGED READING
By Tennessee 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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