Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbingshortplays? Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse inNow the Cats With Jeweled Claws, whilethe poet Hart Crane is confronted by hismother at the bottom of the ocean inSteps Must Be Gentle.Five previously unpublished plays includeA Recluse and His Guest,andThe Strange Play,in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher, and theater scholar Thomas Keith.