Lovely and Misfit

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Play closed 31 March 2007

Trafalgar Studios 2 Whitehall, London

Fish Productions presents Lovely and Misfit in London of three 'undiscovered' short plays by Tennessee Williams directed by Anna Ledwich.

"If I wanna write a drag queen, I'll write a drag queen, and I have written one as a matter of fact" Tennessee Williams 1971

In Tennessee Williams's most provocative and openly gay play, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens, Candy Delaney, a gay transvestite living in the Old French Quarter of New Orleans, suffers 'a damaged heart' after her older lover deserts her. Then one night she brings home Karl, a rough merchant sailor...

In Summer by the Lake, an introverted boy is desperate to escape his domineering mother and in Mr Paradise a reclusive poet receives a surprise visit from a fan on a mission.

Strikingly autobiographical, these three plays in Lovely and Misfit explore the themes that established Tennessee Williams as one of the Twentieth Century's greatest playwrights with The Glass Menagerie (curently playing at London's Apollo Theatre up to 19 May 2007), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire.