BOOKS AND BEIGNETS WITH GARY RICHARDS: THE ROSE TATTOO BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Saturday, March 28
8:30 – 9:45 AM—Special Event
BOOKS AND BEIGNETS WITH GARY RICHARDS: THE ROSE TATTOO BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
After recently focusing on other writers, our breakfast book group returns to Tennessee Williams himself, exploring his 1951 play The Rose Tattoo to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Consistently hailed as one of Williams’ warmest and most life-affirming plays from his major years, it charts the trauma and slow recovery of Serafina Delle Rose as she copes with her husband’s infidelity and death, her daughter’s burgeoning sexuality, and her own need for love, even if it takes her outside social conventions. Moreover, Williams complicates understandings of the US South, setting the play in a Sicilian-American community along the Gulf Coast and thus paying tribute to his longtime partner Frank Merlo, to whom he dedicates the play. Readers are invited to purchase and/or read the play included in the paperback Three by Tennessee (ISBN 978-0451529084). 
Enjoy your book chat with southern literary scholar Gary Richards, along with pillowy golden beignets, an array of fresh fruit, coffee, and juices, all prepared by Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House!
Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House, 144 Bourbon Street, $40 or VIP Pass.