Suddenly Last Summer
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
2011/ White Horse Theater Company (Artistic Director: Cyndy A. Marion) A play by Tennessee Williams Original Incidental Music Score by Joe Gianono In a 1937 Victorian mansion in New Orleans, young socialite Catherine Holly is committed after witnessing her cousin, Sabastian's violent death on a trip to Cabeza De Lobo (translation: Head of the Wolf), Spain . Her aunt, Violet Venable, wants to hide the events of her son's death from and attempts to bribe young surgeon, Dr. John Cukrowicz, to perform a lobotomy on Catherine. But John vows to find out the truth about Catherine's state before taking any action and Catharine tells the gruesome story of Sebastian's death by cannibalism at the hands of locals whose sexual favors he sought and of flesh eating birds. The music reflects the dark side of the decadent idle rich in the white hot primal sun. So much for the “kindness of strangers!” |
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