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You know they’s a kind of bird that don’...

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Orpheus Descending

Tennessee Williams

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2
Time & Place
A dry goods store in a small southern town, America, 1950s
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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You know they’s a kind of bird that don’t have legs so it can’t light on nothing but has to stay all it’s life on its wings in the sky? That’s true. I seen one once, it had died and fallen to earth and it was light blue colored and and its body was tiny as your little finger, [...] they just spread their wings and go to sleep on the wind like other birds fold their wings and go to sleep on a tree…They sleep on the wind and…Never light on this earth but one time when they die!

Tennessee Williams. Orpheus Descending. Dramatists Play Service, 1989. p.29

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