Tennessee Williams' First Full-Length Play, Candles to the Sun
Greenhouse Theater Center (2257 N. Lincoln Avenue Chicago, IL 60614)
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The last date listed for Candles to the Sun was Friday April 25, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out at Greenhouse
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Written by multi-Emmy Award-winning playwright Mark Saltzman, Clutter makes its Midwest premiere at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Based on the compelling true story of the wealthy, reclusive Collyer brothers, who became hoarders in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1920s Harlem, Clutter is the darkly fascinating story of what happens when one brother goes missing and the other is found dead in his room. All of New York is shocked at what the police find inside the home of these wealthy brothers: junk, trash, clutter -- crammed everywhere, piled up to the ceilings. What turned these old-money aristocrats into compulsively hoarding shut-ins? Who killed Homer Collyer? Where's Langley? And what does their relentless obsession reveal about their lives -- and souls? At turns poignant and witty, Clutter is a lighthearted yet touching true-life mystery. Learn More
Goldstar Member Reviews
Veronika
It was thrilling to see a play that has not been staged in 70 years. Overall, I really enjoyed the evening. I did think that the energy level was perhaps a bit uneven throughout and that the handsome fellow playing Red was a bit stiff, literally. He moved as if he had a sore back.Written on Mar 24 2008
Those trifles aside, I would recommend the show to others. Thanks for bringing this show back to the stage!
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Camille
When a play is promoted as rarely produced there's probably a good reason for its obscurity. Although the acting was good, Candles to the Sun would benefit from some ruthless editing. Despite the excess of dialog and wispy tangents, few of the characters are fully developed as the play moves at a painfully slow pace. The first act itself was just over an hour and during the intermission I considered whether I really cared enough about the characters to see how things worked out. I did go back to see the end of the play but the resolution was predictable. I was relieved to be on my way home some 45 minutes later.Written on Mar 21 2008
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Sonia Nahmod
It is wonderful to see the early work of a master like Ten. Williams. The production is well acted and done with integrity. The set was an effective use of the space. All that being said, it is not his greatest play by far. One can see the foreshadowing of future themes about the lives of women and downtrodden. But, there are scenes that are too long, and the play covers too many events and years. Also, there was difficulty with the lighting on the night we were there. InWritten on Mar 28 2008
All, we would say, Go see it. It is worthwhile.
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More Information About Candles to the Sun
Description
<p>The Celebration Series, Eclipse Theatre Company’s two-year celebration of the first ten playwrights featured by Eclipse, begins by honoring the life and work of 1999 featured playwright Tennessee Williams with the Chicago premiere of “Candles to the Sun,” the first full-length play he wrote before Thomas Lanier Williams became famous as “Tennessee.”</p>
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Set during the Great Depression in Alabama’s Red Hills coal mining region, “Candles to the Sun” paints a portrait of the bleak lives of the miners’ families and their attempts to unionize. Recent Jeff-award winning director Steven Fedoruk (who directed Eclipse's hit “Blues for an Alabama Sky”) will return to direct Williams’s rarely produced piece.</p>
About the Ticket Supplier: Eclipse Theatre Company
Eclipse Theatre Company chooses one playwright per season and focuses on the works of that playwright only. Through this total immersion in a specific playwright's world, the ensemble gains a thorough understanding of that playwright and the circumstances of his/her writing in order to bring a more concentrated and literate representation of that playwright to the audience.
Playwrights who have written more than three plays are eligible for consideration, as well as playwrights who have shown a definite range of growth throughout their careers. On deciding which plays to perform, a great factor is the challenge that the piece presents to the ensemble and its audience.
Since the inception of the one playwright-one season mission in 1997, playwrights that have been featured with Eclipse include French Playwright Jean Cocteau; Legendary American Playwrights Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman and Neil Simon, New York Playwrights Romulus Linney and John Guare, and Chicago native Keith Reddin.