Always Love Lucy Theatre present four seldom-seen one act plays by Tennessee Williams in a production titled “Hello to Rose”.

Featuring:
This Property is Condemned
Hello from Bertha
The Last of My Solid Gold Watches
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion

Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes. No intermission.

Rose was Tennessee Williams’ sister and primary childhood friend.

In 1943, their strict mother Edwina authorized a lobotomy on Rose which led her to spend the rest of her life in institutions til she died in 1996.

Tennessee Williams modeled almost all of his younger female characters — such as Laura in The Glass Menagerie — on Rose, and there is almost always a character named Rose (or Violet, as an homage to flower names) in his plays.

Complete with youthful sensitivity, fading southern belles, and reminiscing on days past, “Hello to Rose: One Act Plays by Tennessee Williams” gives the perfect overview of Williams’ timeless style. Through this brief but immersive exploration of some of his shorter works, this production by Always Love Lucy Theatre (headed by Creative Director Christopher Romero Wilson) gives fans of the legendary playwright the opportunity to appreciate the breadth of his work and talent in addition to each individual scene, in ways that a full-length play standing alone might not accomplish. It’s the production’s appreciation for the playwright as well as his works that makes it so successful. Further emphasizing the connection between the work and its creator, the compilation is named after Williams’ sister, Rose, who was subjected to a disastrous lobotomy in 1943 following her schizophrenia diagnosis. Despite her subsequent lifelong institutionalization, Williams remained close to Rose, and she inspired several of his more famous characters and thematic interests. The reference to Williams’ personal life in the title brings out his voice in each scene, linking the one act plays through their a …Read more