Clothes for a Summer Hotel
CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL
2010/ White Horse Theater Company (Artistic Director: Cyndy A. Marion) A play by Tennessee Williams Original Incidental Music Score by Joe Gianono Tennessee Williams attempts to dissect the dysfunctional marriage of that beautiful and damned couple F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. This uneven "ghost play" pits the alcoholic, repressed Scott against the intense, overly sensual Zelda. Like Williams in his "stoned age" of substance abuse and commercial failure, Scott is a physical and artistic wreck. Suffering from frequent panic attacks and shortness of breath, the once-glittering author, now a Hollywood hack, has come to visit his mentally ill wife outside the North Carolina asylum where she has been institutionalized and ultimately dies in flames. This dramatic “period” score includes an “Apache” dance in the form of a Tango.ok |
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