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START: Oh yes, that long-ago summer … In...

Mrs. Violet Venable

Suddenly Last Summer

Tennessee Williams

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Scene 1
Time & Place
A Gothic Mansion in New Orleans, 1936
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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START: Oh yes, that long-ago summer 鈥� In the Himalayas he almost entered a Buddhist monastery, had gone so far as to shave his head and eat just rice out of a wood bowl on a grass mat.
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END: And from then on, oh, we 鈥� still lived in a 鈥� world of light and shadow 鈥� [She turns vaguely with empty glass. He rises and takes it from her.] But the shadow was almost as luminous as the light.

Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. p.18.

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