A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: A Play in Two Scenes

by Tennessee Williams

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It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties -- a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of the author's most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics -- the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony.… (more)

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This play was a bit of a downsize from the usual Williams plays that I've read. It's shorter, less solid, and more flippant than his works. Nevertheless, Williams establishes his characters decently and the play is structured all the way through to provide a decent read. Still, I did not find it to be anything above a typical play, which is odd- considering it's Tennessee Williams after all.

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Best American Plays: 8th Series, 1974-1982 by Clive Barnes

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume VIII by Tennessee Williams

Plays 1957-1980 by Tennessee Williams

The Collected Plays of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams (indirect)

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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

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1980-04-30

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St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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It is late on a Sunday morning, early June, in St. Louis.

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It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties -- a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of the author's most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics -- the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony.

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