TENNESSEE WILLIAMS SCHOLARS CONFERENCE – SESSION 2

Getting the Male: Learning to Read the Semiotics of Men in Williams

Silent, scene-stealing studs? Violent villains in—and victims of—an oppressive society? Radical rewriters of the male-female binary? All of the above? Scholars and directors from the US and Germany look at the challenges Williams’s men characters pose to actors, directors, audiences, and rigid societal structures in the 21st century and ask why it matters.

Moderator: John “Ray” Proctor, Tulane University; Caroline Bühler, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich; David Kaplan, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival; Bess Rowen, Villanova University