{"product_id":"9780811225571","title":"Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws \u0026 Other One-Act Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in \u003cem\u003eNow the Cats With Jeweled Claws\u003c\/em\u003e, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in \u003cem\u003eSteps Must Be Gentle\u003c\/em\u003e. Five previously unpublished plays include \u003cem\u003eA Recluse and His Guest\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Play\u003c\/em\u003e, in which we witness a woman’s entire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.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118514815216,"sku":"9780811225571","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811225571_p0.jpg?v=1763729557","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811225571","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}