The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) is a play written by Tennessee Williams that debuted at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy in July 1962. Its first American production was in January 1963, but it only ran for 69 performances at the Morosco Theatre in New York. Reviews of the play were generally poor. It was revised and re-mounted in January 1964 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and ran 5 performances. In 1968, the play was adapted by Gore Vidal into the film Boom!.
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The play is set in Italy and centres on a wealthy old woman, a Mrs Goforth, who catches a young man, Christopher Flanders, allegedly trespassing on her estate. Dialogue between the two makes up much of the play, and in the end the former dies after a long struggle against a terminal illness.
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Plays by Tennessee Williams | |
|---|---|
| Apprentice plays | Candles to the Sun (1936) • Spring Storm (1937) • Fugitive Kind (1937) • Not about Nightingales (1938) • Battle of Angels (1940) • You Touched Me (1945) • Stairs to the Roof (1947) |
| Major plays | The Glass Menagerie (1944) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) • Summer and Smoke (1948) • The Rose Tattoo (1951) • Camino Real (1953) • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) • Orpheus Descending (1957) • Suddenly, Last Summer (1958) • Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) • Period of Adjustment (1960) • The Night of the Iguana (1961) |
| Later plays | The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) • The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968) • In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969) • Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969) • Small Craft Warnings (1972) • The Two-Character Play (1973) • The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975) • This Is (An Entertainment) (1976) • Vieux Carré (1977) • Creve Coeur (1979) • Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980) • The Notebook of Trigorin (1980) • Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981) • A House Not Meant to Stand (1982) |
| Other | One act plays by Tennessee Williams |
