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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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