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Short Play, Drama / 2w, 3m
Tennessee Williams
"Williams' words poignantly call forth the passion, and heartbreak of a long-lost summer." - Cape Cod Times
"Love makes some people charming but it makes me dull." In the summer of 1940 Williams lived in Provincetown, Mass., where he fell in love for the first time - the man was Kip Kiernan, a dancer and Canadian draft dodger. Their affair lasted most of the summer, until Kip broke it off and left with a woman. Williams immediately drafted The Parade, which he finished in the 1960s. This play, which is related to the full-length Something Cloudy, Something Clear, not only presents a completely unguarded story about gay men, but also a portrait of passions unrequited and passions denied, that reveals the depth of compassion which can be found in friendship.
A par of the collection The Traveling Companion and Other Plays.
The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer premiered the First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in a production by Shakespeare on the Cape Cod in October 2006 under the direction of Jef Hall-Flavin.
Provincetown, MA, August, 1940.
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