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Distant Country Called Youth

Adapted by Steve Lawson

From The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1, 1920-1945

August 29, 2011

OverviewArtists

Richard Thomas
Tennessee Williams
Westport Country Playhouse: Critic’s Choice, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, and a reading of The Golden Age. Thomas entered the public’s heart starring in the Emmy Award-winning series, “The Waltons.” He has continued to star in series, films, plays and over 50 movies for television. Most recently, he was seen in the Hallmark Channel’s film Time After Time. On stage, he has been called “one of the leading classical actors of his generation,” Newsday. His Broadway career began at age seven with 1958’s Sunrise at Campobello, and has continued with such shows as Fifth of July, The Seagull, The Front Page, Tiny Alice, Peer Gynt, Richard II, Richard III, Hamlet and The Stendhal Syndrome. Recent appearances include Broadway’s Democracy and Race, the Public Theater’s Timon of Athens and the national tour of the acclaimed Broadway revival of 12 Angry Men.

Steve Lawson
Adaptor and Director
Steve Lawson is Executive Director of the Williamstown Film Festival, which has hosted such artists as Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Campbell Scott, Sigourney Weaver, and Alec Baldwin and been called "a world-class festival with a small-town heart." His plays based on Tennessee Williams' letters - A Distant Country Called Youth and Blanche and Beyond - have been performed across America and published by Samuel French. He was the first literary manager at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, helping to launch the Free Theater and Cabaret and writing WTF's 50th anniversary gala. Television credits include a Christopher Award, a Humanitas Prize nomination, the adaptation of The Elephant Man, "St. Elsewhere" (for which Steve co-wrote the first teleplay on AIDS), and the Emmy-winning "Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre," produced by Joanne Woodward. Steve has degrees from Williams College and Yale School of Drama.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
Playwright
Tennessee Williams was one of America’s most prolific and important playwrights. His prodigious output included The Glass Menagerie (New York Drama Critics Award 1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (New York Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New York Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963), Out Cry (1973), Vieux Carre (1977), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979), and Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981). Not About Nightingales, which he wrote in 1947, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London, and at the Alley Theatre, Houston, in 1998 with great success.