Suddenly Last Summer

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Writers: Tennessee Williams

Context

Tennessee Williams wrote Suddenly Last Summer in 1957. It premiered Off-Broadway in January 1958 and was performed alongside another of Williams’ one-act plays, Something Unspoken, which he had written seven years earlier. Together, the plays were presented under the collective title Garden District. Mary Anne Meacham starred in this production as Catharine and won the Obie Award for her performance.

Suddenly Last Summer was adapted into a film in 1959, starring Elizabeth Taylor as Catharine, Katharine Hepburn as Mrs. Venable, and Montgomery Clift as Doctor Cukrowicz. However, due to

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