The Red Devil Battery Sign

Tennessee Williams (playwright)
Ed Sherin (director)
Anthony Quinn, Claire Bloom, Katy Jurado, Annette Cardona (starring)

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on June 18, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page.

One of Tennessee Williams' later and more experimental works, a meditation on moral decay and the decline of the American dream in the 1960s as depicted through an extramarital affair at the fictional Yellow Rose Hotel in Dallas days after the Kennedy assassination.

Set in Dallas, Texas.

Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with a credit for playwright Tennessee Williams on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated March, 1975, with credits for playwright Tennessee Williams. 103 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-4-50. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.


[Book #147510]