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  Suddenly, Last Summer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suddenly, Last Summer is a play by Tennessee Williams.
The play starred Anne Meacham as Catherine, a young woman who seems to go insane after her cousin Sebastian dies on a trip to Europe under mysterious circumstances.
The play was again adapted for television in 1993 under the direction of Richard Eyre and starring Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, Richard E. Grant, and Natasha Richardson.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suddenly, Last Summer is a (A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage) play by (United States playwright (1911-1983)) Tennessee Williams.
Sebastian's mother tries to cloud the truth about her son's (A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex) homosexuality and his death, as she wants him to be remembered as a great artist.
The (A script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets) screenplay was adapted by (United States writer (born in 1925)) Gore Vidal and Williams from his play.
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 NetForum - Messages In Topic: "Suddenly, Last Summer" Journal Response   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I think the connection between The Bacchae by Euripides and Suddenly Last Summer by Tennesee Williams is that in both plays the author describes the important episodes very detailed and precise.
Suddenly Last Summer is not very similiar to any other of the readings, however I did find that the way the Insane were described in the that essay (The Insane) does follow the same as the actions of Sebastian.
Suddenly Last Summer has an overwhelming methaphor for holliness in many scenes of the play.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tagline: Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
As one would expect for a film derived from a stage play, cinematography and music are less important than dialogue and acting.
"Suddenly Last Summer" is worth viewing for its unusual story, and for the acting accomplishments of Hepburn and Taylor.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer
Well, the gist of the matter is, Sebastian died last summer, and his cousin Cathy saw it happen, went "crazy" and is now locked up with some nuns taking care of her.
And since Sebastian died in the summer, that had to have happened prior to the spring that she says is her first memory.
Suddenly Last Summer is a Colony Second Stage Presentation, produced on the set of The Matchmaker, originally designed by John Patrick, with lighting by John Vasquez.
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 Suddenly Last Summer - Tennessee Williams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suddenly Last Summer is about truth and falsehood, about the ways in which human beings use one another and about the hunger for gold, which can overcome the most basic loyalties and moral scruples.
Her monologue is one of the most riveting half-hours in the theater and Duffy is up to the challenge.
The many food metaphors including the last lunch, witnessed by starving urchins in Cabeza de Lobos (Cape of the Wolves, another predatory reference), hearken back to the earlier description of the sea turtle incident.
www.culturevulture.net /Theater5/SuddenlyLastSummer.htm   (725 words)

  
 KDHX Theatre Review - Suddenly Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the long one-act Suddenly Last Summer, a melodramatic morality tale of guilty consciences and endangered innocence, Williams gives us plenty of his delicious theatrical excess to revel in.
The result in Suddenly Last Summer is some long monologues, powerfully written but laying a heavy burden on those who deliver them.
Catherine is fighting for her sanity, fighting against the threat of a lobotomy, fighting, like most Williams' heroines, near the end of her rope with only determination, guts, and a true if impure heart as weapons.
www.kdhx.org /reviews/suddenly.html   (446 words)

  
 law.com - Suddenly Last Summer
The two firms at the top of The American Lawyer's annual survey of summer associates were hovering near the bottom of our last rankings.
This year's summer associates focused on compatibility and whether a firm had portrayed itself accurately in interviews.
The Life of the Average Summer Associate: Average score given to firms.
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 Encyclopedia: Suddenly, Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Suddenly Last Summer , a CurtainUp Berkshire review
As the mother recalls happier summer sojourns it becomes clear that she felt jealous and usurped even before his sudden death.
With no hope of a return to the happy days when she and her son were known as "Violet and Sebastian", she is determined to preserve the carefully image of a sensitive poet who died chaste at age forty.
Maybe there was something wrong with the sound system last Saturday since even from Row E you had to strain to catch much of Williams's beautiful lyricism -- a complaint echoed all around me and out in the parking lot.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) is a compelling adaptation by Gore Vidal of Tennessee Williams' Southern drama-one act play.
The film's provocative poster teased: "...suddenly last summer Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!"
While traveling with him in Spain during their vacation the previous summer, he used her as a means to attract and lure boys.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The play takes place in New Orleans, where an eccentric elderly lady named Violet Venable--in order to suppress the truth of her son's horrific death--orders the lobotomy of her beautiful niece, who was the sole witness to the crime.
The Sackett Group is currently staging Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer at the Brooklyn Music School Playhouse.
Catherine is given a dose of truth serum and the play’s mysteries begin to untangle themselves as Catherine describes what happened, very suddenly, last summer.
www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/sudd1936.htm   (1042 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Suddenly Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Last summer, Cathy and Sebastian travelled to Europe on an extravagant, decadent & obviously quite hedonistic vacation.
The film builds and builds into the last 20 minutes of this film where Taylor gives a tremendous soliliquy and overview of just what DID happen to poor Sebastian.
"Suddenly Last Summer" is a Southern gothic tale about a gaddabout dame (Elizabeth Taylor) who saw something so frightening while on a vacation in Greece that it made her go nuts.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer
Venable) son Sebastian who died "suddenly last summer," the cause of his death and the effect of his death on Catherine (Ms.
There seems to be a bit of incest-- emotional if not physical-- a hint that Sebastian may have had a thing about young men ("we procured for him"), and the ending that pretty much defies description.
I especially love the last twenty minutes which is shown in flashback.
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 The Encantadas and Suddenly Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And so we did go there that summer on a chartered boat, a four-masted schooner, as close as possible to the sort of a boat that Melville must have sailed on.
According to Brian Parker, the Encantadas material was one of the last elements that Williams added to the play; it only first appears in drafts associated with pre-production work on the script, when Suddenly Last Summer had been combined with Something Unspoken under the title Garden District.
These questions, like all good questions in a “trial” play such as Suddenly Last Summer, are ones that the reader or audience member is given to ponder and to resolve.
www.indiana.edu /~thtr/1999/Suddenly/Encantadas.htm   (927 words)

  
 Suddenly Last Summer - Albery Theatre - www.warntickets.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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In the sultry heat of New Orleans she plans her act of revenge on the girl she believes stole Sebastian from her.
Tennessee Williams'; chilling study of motherly love and jealousy provoked by a rival for a son's affection is one of the last century's most haunting and atmospheric dramas.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: "Suddenly, Last Summer (Widescreen/Full Screen)"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This fl-and-white film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern gothic play is perhaps more famous for the rumored off-screen shenanigans of its stars than for its over-the-top repressed sexuality (only Williams could pull off that paradox, and pull it off he does).
From its gothic settings to its potent female stars and its lurid subject manner, Suddenly, Last Summer presents a mixture of operatic Southern passions and high-camp excess unequaled in American cinema.
The sight of Katherine Hepburn coyly descending from on high in an ornate elevator to preside grandly over her prehistoric garden is itself enough to scare away viewers looking for anything approaching quotidian naturalism.
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 Amazon.com: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Venable was already quite traumatized by a baby sea turtle massacre last summer on the Galapogos Islands and Kathy was raped that very summer but what happened to cousin Sebastian in Europe was something that completely broke Kathy's fragile mind.
Each one has long monologues lasting for more than 15 minutes, but, because of their talents, I was riveted to my seat the entire time.
Adapted from a play by Tennessee Williams who was joined by Gore Vidal in writing the screenplay, it's a strikingly weird story set in 1937 New Orleans and deals with the sensitive subjects of insanity, lobotomy and cannibalism.
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 Suddenly Last Summer at IU Theatre & Drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suddenly Last Summer at IU Theatre and Drama
The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama opened the 1999-2000 season with its production of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer, October 8, 9, 11-16, 1999.
Costume designer Alexandra Morphet has written a brief essay about the costumes and has permitted us to publish her renderings.
www.indiana.edu /~thtr/1999/suddenly.html   (195 words)

  
 Suddenly Last Summer with Victoria Hamilton and Diana Rigg at Albery 2004
Suddenly Last Summer with Victoria Hamilton and Diana Rigg at Albery 2004
In Williams’ plays love is always an impetuous beast, just as liable to destroy as to create, “We all devour each other, in our fashion” he once said in an interview.
The story concerns the wealthy southern belle Mrs Venable, whose son Sebastian died the previous summer while on a Spanish cruise with his niece Catherine.
www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/suddenly04.htm   (696 words)

  
 Suddenly Last Summer, a CurtainUp London review
From the moment we see Christopher Oram's massive closed steel drum with rays of light breaking randomly through the apertures where the steel has rusted away, we know that this will be visually something very special.
His personal experience must be what makes the writing so exceptionally searing as he deals with issues of mental health and the threat of institutionalisation.
The long descriptive passages are mesmerising as Mrs Venable talks about her summers with her attractive poet son.
www.curtainup.com /suddenlylastsummerlondon.html   (669 words)

  
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In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor an...
From its gothic settings to its potent female stars and its lurid subject manner, Suddenly, Last Summer presents a mixture of operatic Southern passions and high-camp exc...
In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a seemingly insane, young New Orleans debutante and the wealthy aunt who wants to lobotomize her.
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 Suddenly, Last Summer News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Natasha Richardson's empathy for fragile, wounded characters brings her, at last, to A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois.
The train bearing me from the Midlands to the projected interview with Dame Diana at a London hotel suddenly stopped,...
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 Auditions set for 'Suddenly, Last Summer'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cameron University's theatre arts department has scheduled auditions for Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer," the second in its season of "Great Playwrights at a Bargain."
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is a suspenseful tale of a young woman who witnesses her cousin's unbelievably shocking death, then is confronted by his family, who wants her to deny the lurid tale she has told.
Williams is one of the great writers of this century, penning such works at "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Menagerie."
www.cameron.edu /media_pr/pr97/109play.html   (220 words)

  
 DVD : Suddenly, Last Summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The not as good: Katharine Hepburn is of course one of our finest...
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is one of my favorite films for many reasons.
The lush writing is Tennessee Williams at his best.
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 Suddenly Last Summer tickets - Suddenly Last Summer information - Baltimore
The Vagabond Players presents Suddenly Last Summer by Tennesse Williams.
Venable is making every effort to be sure that that truth never comes to light and that the girl who stole her son's affections pays dearly for that crime.
In the stifling beat of a New Orleans garden, an emotional power struggle emerges, a struggle far more deadly than the onset of a summer thunderstorm.
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