A House Not Meant to Stand: Tennessee Williams's Last Play, with Stars of Stage and Screen
Fountain Theatre (5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles, CA 90029)
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The last date listed for A House Not Meant to Stand was Friday May 20, 2011 / 8:00pm.
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21 Goldstar Member Reviews
BellaJ2000
This play was wonderfully casted and acted. Everyone did an outstanding job. I'm a fan of Tennessee Williams work and I thorougly enjoyed it. It is intense and the language is full of southern flourish so it may not be everyone's cup ot tea.Written on May 17 2011
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Cocopazzo
A great production of one of Tennessee Williams' least acclaimed plays.Written on Mar 27 2011
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Goldstar Member
I can understand the mixed reactions. All are legitimate but I thoroughly enjoyed the play, performances, staging, everything.Written on May 16 2011
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Alan Trevor
A great production. Almost like Tennessee Williams meets Del Shores.Written on Apr 11 2011
Very enjoyable.
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Quotes & Highlights
- Director Simon Levy is the winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Milton Katselas Career Achievement Award in Directing.
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Description
The Ovation award-winning Fountain Theatre (Best Season, 2010) celebrates the centennial of Tennessee Williams’s birth (March 26, 1911) with the West Coast premiere of his final play, by special permission of the Williams Estate.
Simon Levy, just announced as the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle’s 2010 Milton Katselas Award for special achievement in directing, directs A House Not Meant to Stand.
While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it’s through this dark, expressionistic comedy that he ultimately expressed his vision of the fragile state of our world. Subtitled “a Gothic comedy,” A House Not Meant to Stand brings us the blazingly dysfunctional McCorkle family in a fiercely funny, bitingly moving, turbo-charged tragicomedy that is at once searing, savage, and hilarious.
“Welcome to the wild, wonderful, wacky world of Mr. Williams,” says Levy. “His last play is bold and quintessentially Tennessee, a mix of surrealism, the poetic realism we expect of him, and black comedy. Up until the very end, he continued to experiment with form and content.”
Sandy Martin (Big Love, Grandma in Napoleon Dynamite ) stars as Bella McCorkle, the family matriarch with visions of a family restored; Alan Blumenfeld (Heroes) is Cornelius, the blusterous father of the family; Daniel Billet (Fountain Theatre’s Photograph 51) is Charlie, the McCorkle’s unemployed youngest son; Virginia Newcomb (Peacock with Ellen Page, the upcoming Insert) plays Stacey, Charlie’s pregnant, born-again girlfriend; Lisa Richards (Heavenly opposite Christopher Walken in Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, Henry Jaglom’s Eating), is the cosmetic surgery-addicted neighbor Jessie Sykes; and Robert Craighead (The Bold & The Beautiful, Return of the Living Dead, Firestorm) is Emerson Sykes, schemer, womanizer and fellow Moose Lodge brother.
A House Not Meant to Stand started out as a one-act entitled Some Problems for the Moose Lodge that was staged by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 1980, along with two other one-acts under the umbrella title Tennessee Laughs. At the urging of Goodman artistic director Gregory Mosher, Williams returned to his home in Key West to expand it into a full-length play. Williams called House a "Southern Gothic spook sonata," a deliberate reference to an August Strindberg play, The Ghost Sonata.
The McCorkle’s crumbling house is a metaphor for contemporary society, while the characters are drawn from the Williams family: his father Cornelius, his aunt Belle, his paternal grandfather, and his brother Dakin. When the play opened in late April 1982, Time called it the best play Williams had written in a decade, "inhabited by a rich collection of scarred characters.” It was published for the first time in 2008 by New Directions.