
Garden District (1958, off-Broadway) - repro
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Tennessee Williams’s intense double-bill psychological thriller 'Garden District' permanently altered the trajectory of modern avant-garde literature during its historic 1958 world premiere at the York Playhouse, running for 402 performances. Comprising two raw, textually fierce one-act plays—*Something Unspoken* and *Suddenly Last Summer*—the claustrophobic Southern Gothic tragedy centers on the formidable, grieving matriarch Violet Venable as she attempts to bribe a young surgeon to perform a lobotomy on her niece Catharine to suppress a horrifying truth regarding her son Sebastian's death. Directed by Herbert Machiz, the original production starred Anne Meacham and Robert Lansing.

