A House Not Meant to Stand
113 E Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
- Presented By: Madison Public Theatre
- Dates: 5/8/2025, 5/9/2025, 5/10/2025, 5/11/2025, 5/15/2025, 5/16/2025, 5/17/2025, 5/18/2025, 5/22/2025, 5/23/2025, 5/24/2025
- Location: Bartell Community Theatre
- Time: 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Price: $25
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OVERVIEW
Written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Julia Houck, this is the final play of one of America’s finest playwrights.
Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return one stormy midnight from the funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart – daughter Joanie is in an asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. What ensues is a play of hidden family fortunes, lecherous neighbors, scheming fathers, madness, and even a ghost or two. In this dark, expressionistic comedy, what he called his “Southern Gothic Spook Sonata,” Williams brilliantly chronicles the fragile state of our world. -
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