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03882aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 A77C4A98462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180209s2017 nyu r 000 d eng d 020 $a 0822236737 020 $a 9780822236733 035 $a (OCoLC)1022291702 040 $a OSZ $b eng $e rda $c OSZ $d OSZ $d TXI $d SILO 050 4 $a PS626 $b .D47 2017 082 4 $a 812/.04108 $2 23 245 00 $a Desire / $c six one-act plays by Elizabeth Egloff, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, David Grimm, John Guare, and Beth Henley ; based on short stories by Tennessee Williams. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Dramatists Play Service, $c [2017] 300 $a 97 pages ; $c 20 cm. 505 00 $t You lied to me about Centralia / $r John Guare. $t The field of blue children / $r Rebecca Gilman -- $t Attack of the giant tent worms / $r Elizabeth Egloff -- $t Oriflamme / $r David Grimm -- $t Desire quenched by touch / $r Marcus Gardley -- $t You lied to me about Centralia / $r John Guare. 520 $a ATTACK OF THE GIANT TENT WORMS. Billy and Clara are nearing the end of their summer vacation on Cape Cod, as their cottage is being devoured by billions of tent-worms. Worse, Billy has just gotten word from his oncologist that there are no more treatment options for his brain cancer. A darkly humorous exploration of which is more terrifying: bugs or death? (1 man, 1 woman.) DESIRE QUENCHED BY TOUCH. In 1950s New Orleans, a black masseur must account for the disappearance of his favorite white customer. People don't just vanish inside massage parlors... (3 men.) THE FIELD OF BLUE CHILDREN. Everything in Layley's life is going according to plan. She belongs to the best sorority at her university and has a devoted boyfriend who could easily become a devoted husband. But Layley suspects that there is more to life than stifling conformity. So she signs up for a poetry class in the hopes of expressing herself. There she meets Dylan, a sensitive poet with whom she enjoys a night of passion that opens up a truly revolutionary prospect: living a life of her own. (3 men, 4 women.) ORIFLAMME. Oriflamme (noun): A red or scarlet banner; a knight's standard; a rallying principle. Sickly Anna Kimball, on her final day, reaches out for, and becomes, all of these. (1 man, 1 woman.) YOU LIED TO ME ABOUT CENTRALIA. Jim, the Gentleman Caller, leaves the Wingfields' disastrous dinner party to meet his fiancee Betty's train. The evening won't turn out the way either of them expected. (1 man, 1 woman.) THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN A VIOLIN CASE AND A COFFIN. Tom and his sister Roe's childhood comes to a painful end when Richard Miles, who moves in light, arrives in town with his violin in a case. (2 men, 4 women.) 600 10 $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983 $v Adaptations. 600 17 $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040786 655 7 $a Adaptations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423910 700 1 $a Henley, Beth, $e author. 700 1 $a Gilman, Rebecca Claire, $e author. 700 1 $a Egloff, Elizabeth, $e author. 700 1 $a Grimm, David, $e author. 700 1 $a Gardley, Marcus, $e author. 700 1 $a Guare, John, $e author. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Resemblance between a violin case and a coffin. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Field of blue children. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Tent worms. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Oriflamme. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Desire and the black masseur. 700 1 $i Adaptation of (work): $a Williams, Tennessee, $d 1911-1983. $t Portrait of a girl in glass. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211020335.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A77C4A98462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search