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Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

Tennessee Williams

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

Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    30 minutes
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary

Two unnamed characters, Man and Woman, live in a crumbling flat on the Lower East Side. He is a drunk, and she is purposefully wasting away - but between them there is an intimacy of desperation.

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

History

Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen premiered in Westport, CT in 1958.

Performing Groups
MAN
WOMAN
CHILD'S VOICE - offstage
  • Setting

    A furnished room west of Eighth Avenue in Manhattan.

  • Duration 30 minutes

Media

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Licensing & Materials

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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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