Blue Heaven
Three short plays by Tennessee Williams
Three short plays by Tennessee Williams
Three rarely performed short plays exploring themes of hope and despair through the lens of love, childhood dreams, and the struggle against societal imperfections.
About The Play
About The Play
(The entire run sold out and an extra performance was added on 22 February 2009)
MOONY’S KID DON’T CRY
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
AUTO-DA-FE
Three rarely performed short plays about hope and despair from one of America’s greatest playwrights. Some people can dream of a better world. Others cannot. What happens when you cannot separate yourself from an imperfect world?
In Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry, an unplanned baby puts strain on a young couple’s relationship. The play questions what we should do when we have responsibilities, but we know that there has got to be more to life than what’s in front of us?
In This Property is Condemned, an orphaned girl and a boy playing truant meet on a railway track in a beautifully hopeful play about the importance of dreams when you cannot escape. Written for child actors, the play will at last be performed by actors at the right age – 12 year-old Charlotte Beaumont (2,000 Feet Away, Bush Theatre) and 14 year-old Oliver Cooper-Smith (The Cryptogram, Donmar Warehouse).
Auto-Da-Fe literally means ‘an act of faith.’ Eloi is a puritan fundamentalist, disgusted by the sin that surrounds him. When he discovers a pornographic photograph, he has no choice but to cleanse himself and his world. A searching look at what happens when you cannot separate yourself from an imperfect world, and your beliefs are so strong that you have no choice but to act…
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Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry, This Property is Condemned and Auto-Da-Fe are presented through special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Supported by Old Vic New Voices