SCHOLARS CONFERENCE – Staged Reading: Williams Family Correspondence and “God in the Free Ward”

(Included in Scholars Conference Pass, LitPass, and VIP Pass)

Theater director and educator Tom Mitchell and members of the University of Illinois theater company present a staged reading that interweaves HNOC’s newly acquired letters by Tennessee Williams’s beloved and tragic sister, Rose, with diary entries by his mother and excerpts from his letters and his previously unpublished short story “God in the Free Ward.”

The reading is introduced by HNOC curator and historian Mark Cave and HNOC editor and conference codirector Margit Longbrake, who discuss HNOC’s acquisition of Rose’s letters, and by director Mitchell, who offers insight into his process of combining the texts from various sources.