Suddenly Last Summer - Revision history

Satj: /* Translations and adaptations */

2025-07-08T16:07:58Z

Translations and adaptations

Satj: /* Translations and adaptations */

2025-07-08T16:07:35Z

Translations and adaptations

Satj: /* The original text */

2025-07-08T16:02:52Z

The original text

Satj at 15:58, 8 July 2025

2025-07-08T15:58:31Z

Satj: /* Translations and adaptations */

2025-07-08T15:55:00Z

Translations and adaptations

Satj: Created page with "''Suddenly Last Summer'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams ()[] ==The original text== Written in New York in 1957, the play opened Off Broadway on January 7, 1958,..."

2025-07-08T15:51:28Z

Created page with "''Suddenly Last Summer'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams ()[] ==The original text== Written in New York in 1957, the play opened Off Broadway on January 7, 1958,..."

New page

''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams ()[]

==The original text==

Written in New York in 1957, the play opened Off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with his play ''[[Something Unspoken]]'' (written in London in 1951).The production was titled ''[[Garden District]]'', but ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' became a renowned work in its own right.

It opened in London, under club conditions, at the Arts Theatre on September 16, 1958, running until October 11.

The play was reworked for film by Gore Vidal and filmed in 1959, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053318/] Released as '''''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'''''.

The play was adapted for BBC Television in 1993 under the direction of Royal National Theatre head Richard Eyre and starring Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, Richard E. Grant and Natasha Richardson.[]

The play text was published in ''Suddenly Last Summer and Other Plays'' in 1958[https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Suddenly_Last_Summer_and_Other_Plays.html?id=gEZUAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y]

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_Last_Summer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly,_Last_Summer_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053318/

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Suddenly_Last_Summer_and_Other_Plays.html?id=gEZUAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

== Return to ==

Return to [[South_African_Films]]

Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]

Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]

Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]

Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]

Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]

Return to [[South_African_Radio/Plays|South African Radio Plays and Serials]]

Return to [[South_African_Television/Plays|South African Television Plays and Series]]

Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]

Return to [[Main Page]]

@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Skielik Verlede Somer]]''''' by an unnamed author. Possbly a playwriting project undertaken for a drama class at [[Stellenbosch University]] Drama Department. (A copy of the translation found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.)
+Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Skielik Verlede Somer]]''''' by an unnamed author. Possibly a playwriting project undertaken for a drama class at [[Stellenbosch University]] Drama Department. (A copy of the translation found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.)
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

@@ Line 17: / Line 17: @@
 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Skielik Verlede Somer]]'' by an unnamed author. Possbly a playwriting project undertaken for a drama class at [[Stellenbosch University]] Drama Department. (A copy of the translation found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.)
+Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Skielik Verlede Somer]]''''' by an unnamed author. Possbly a playwriting project undertaken for a drama class at [[Stellenbosch University]] Drama Department. (A copy of the translation found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.)
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:55, 8 July 2025
Line 15:		Line 15:
	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

		+	Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Skielik Verlede Somer]]'' by an unnamed author. Possbly a playwriting project undertaken for a drama class at [[Stellenbosch University]] Drama Department. (A copy of the translation found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.)

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ==The original text==
-Written in New York in 1957, the play opened Off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with his play ''[[Something Unspoken]]'' (written in London in 1951).The production was titled ''[[Garden District]]'', but ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' became a renowned work in its own right.
+Written in New York in 1957, the play focusses on Catherine Holly's recollection of her cousin Sebastian's death, a traumatic event that others, including his mother, want to suppress. The central conflict revolves around whose version of the truth will be believed and how past events are remembered and interpreted.
 It opened in London, under club conditions, at the Arts Theatre on September 16, 1958, running until October 11.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams ()[]
+''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams]
 ==The original text==
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Suddenly_Last_Summer_and_Other_Plays.html?id=gEZUAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]