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''[[The Case of the Crushed Petunias]]'' is a play by Tennessee Williams ()[].

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Broadcast by the SABC in its programme ''[[Kleinteater]]'' ("Little Theatre") on 14 Febnruary at 20h00.
+: Broadcast by the [[SABC]] in its programme ''[[Kleinteater]]'' ("Little Theatre") on 14 February at 20h00.
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 ==The original text==
-The play tells of Miss Dorothy Simple, proprietor of the Simple Notions Shop in Primanproper, Massachusetts, who has barricaded her house and heart behind a double row of petunias. Today, however, she has woken up to find every single petunia crushed by the footprints of a size-eleven-D shoe. When the perpetrator, a Young Man, arrives to confess his crime, he comes on a mission to alert Miss Dorothy to the "miraculous accident of being alive." Armed with poetry, seeds for wild roses, and a business card from "Life, Incorporated," the Young Man endeavors to convince Miss Dorothy of the tremendous inspiration that lies beyond what one can buy or sell in a shop with four walls.
+The play tells of Miss Dorothy Simple, proprietor of the Simple Notions Shop in Primanproper, Massachusetts, who has barricaded her house and heart behind a double row of petunias, and the way her life is transformed by the arrival of a Young Man from "Life, Incorporated", who alerts her to the "miraculous accident of being alive" and the tremendous inspiration that lies beyond what one can buy or sell in a shop with four walls.
 The play premiered at the Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio in February 1957 under the direction of Reuben Silver.
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 https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/8565/the-case-of-the-crushed-petunias
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Gekneusde Petunias]]'' and adapted for radio by [[Alewyn Lee]] in 1967.

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

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−	''[[The Case of the Crushed Petunias]]'' is a play by Tennessee Williams ()[].	+	''[[The Case of the Crushed Petunias]]'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams ()[].
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		+	==The original text==
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		+	The play tells of Miss Dorothy Simple, proprietor of the Simple Notions Shop in Primanproper, Massachusetts, who has barricaded her house and heart behind a double row of petunias. Today, however, she has woken up to find every single petunia crushed by the footprints of a size-eleven-D shoe. When the perpetrator, a Young Man, arrives to confess his crime, he comes on a mission to alert Miss Dorothy to the "miraculous accident of being alive." Armed with poetry, seeds for wild roses, and a business card from "Life, Incorporated," the Young Man endeavors to convince Miss Dorothy of the tremendous inspiration that lies beyond what one can buy or sell in a shop with four walls.
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		+	The play premiered at the Karamu Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio in February 1957 under the direction of Reuben Silver.
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		+	Published by Concord Theatricals on 2011 as part of the collection ''The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays'', edited by Thomas Keith, with a Forword by Terrence McNally.
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		+	==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	== Performance history in South Africa ==
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		+	== Sources ==


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