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Hello From Bertha

10 Minute Play, Drama  /  4w

Tennessee Williams

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

Hello From Bertha

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w
  • Duration
    Duration
    10 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

Bertha is a prostitute on the verge of being evicted from a low-class bordello. In a series of delusions she revisits her past loves while slipping toward disease and death.

A part of the collection 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays.

History

Hello from Bertha premiered on television on the PBS program "Play of the Week: Four Plays by Tennessee" in 1961.

Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
GOLDIE
BERTHA
LENA
GIRL
  • Setting

    A bedroom in the red light district of East St. Louis.

  • Duration 10 minutes

Media

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Authors

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “ ...
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