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REPaloud presents 2011 Brooks Fund Speaker Series Kick-Off: Tennessee Williams

Presented by Tennessee Repertory Theatre

August 25, 2011

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Tennessee Rep Producing Artistic Director René D. Copeland will kick-off the 2011 Brooks Fund Speaker Series with a discussion of gay themes in the works one of America’s greatest playwrights: Tennessee Williams.

Williams life was bookended by fairly scarring examples of attitudes toward homosexuality during his lifetime: While growing up, Williams was called “Miss Nancy” by his tough shoe salesman father, and in 1979—4 years before his death—Williams suffered a gay-bashing in Key West at the hands of five teenage boys.

Williams' gayness was an open secret he neither publicly confirmed nor denied until the post-Stonewall era when gay critics took him to task for not coming out, which he did in a series of public utterances, his Memoirs (1975), self-portraits in some of the later plays, and the novel, Moise and the World of Reason (1975), all of which document Williams' sense of himself as a gay man.

REPaloud means Reading Excellent Plays Aloud. This popular series began during the 2009-10 season and has grown each season. Highlighting award-winning plays in a staged reading format, REPaloud has featured plays such as August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg, among others.

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    Tennessee Rep Rehearsal Hall

    NPT Studio A
    161 Rains Avenue
    Nashville, TN 37203

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    August 25, 2011

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    Thursday 6:00pm

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