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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
 
It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and the film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same.
 
It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and the film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same.
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Published in London by Secker & Warburg, 1954.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:56, 17 May 2016

The Rose Tattoo is a play by Tennessee Williams.

The original text

It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and the film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same.

Published in London by Secker & Warburg, 1954.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

There was a production of this play in the 1970s starring Madeleine Bertine Rose, Elizabeth Renfield and Richard Knibbs.

Sources

Wikipedia [1].

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