Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Synopsis

Testing times ahead as Cat on Hot Tin Roof takes shape. John Lahr's biography of the American playwright read by Damien Lewis.

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | 1: Broadway Success and Childhood

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Echoes of Williams's troubled childhood are present in his first Broadway success, The Gl...

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | 2: Awakenings

2014 | 13'48''

Williams embarks on a new play and Marlon Brando turns up for an unconventional audition for it. Read by Dami...

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | 3: Moon of Pause

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Williams makes new friends in Europe. Back home an encounter promises love and inspiration for a new play....

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | 4: Testing Times

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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | 5: Crisis Point

2014 | 13'36''

Crisis point is reached as Williams writes the Sweet Bird of Youth. Concluded by Damien Lewis, Trevor White...

Other Archive resources

A Streetcar Named Desire | BBC Radio 3 | 2017

Drama on 3 | A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams's seminal drama about a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Matthew Needham.

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh | BBC Radio 4 | 2014