Tennessee Williams

Anastasia Hille stars as Amanda Wingfield and George MacKay as her son Tom in BBC Radio 3's landmark production of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece
Tennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a family trapped in their own unhappy situation and the shattering of their quiet existence when is stranger is brought home.
Tom shares the cramped and claustrophobic tenement home with his over-bearing mother, Amanda and painfully shy

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Follows the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

Maggie and Brick visit Brick's parents at their Southern plantation as the domineering family patriarch dies.

Karen Stone, a lonely, aging actress, lives in a luxurious apartment in Rome where she has a romantic fling with a young gigolo.

Competition between brothers for their father's love leads to a tragic end; family tensions erupt on a southern plantation between a terminally ill man, his alcoholic son, and the son's frustrated wife; a disturbed woman moves in with her sister and brutish brother-in-law in New Orleans; new in town, a troubled teen tries to prove himself to his peers and find the love he does not get from his family.

From childhood, Alma has loved John Buchanan. Repressed by the pressure of a minister father and a mother who has never recovered from a nervous breakdown, she keeps these feelings bottled up. Her life becomes unbearable when John returns from medical school and takes up with the sultry Rosa, the daughter of the casino owner who is as open and willing as Alma is shy and repressed.

A defrocked, alcoholic, and emotionally-troubled minister struggles with his desire for earthly pleasures as a tour guide in Mexico. Shepherding a busload of school teachers and one libidinous 18-year old girl, he becomes entangled with the teen, suffers a nervous breakdown when discovered, and strands the group at the remote and rundown seaside hotel of his old friend Maxine. As his emotional state continues to unravel, and the group's problems increase,...