Broadway Theatre Archive Tennessee Williams Collection (Eccentricities of a Nightingale/Ten Blocks on the Camino Real/Dragon Country) - Amazon.com Exclusive
by Glenn Jordan, Jack Landau
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Actor: Blythe Danner, Frank Langella, Louise Latham, Neva Patterson, Tim O'ConnorDirector: Glenn Jordan, Jack Landau
Producer: Glenn Jordan
Producer: Jack Landau
Producer: Jac Venza
Producer: Lindsay Law
Writer: Tennessee Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-12
Studio: Kultur
DVD Reviews of Broadway Theatre Archive Tennessee Williams Collection (Eccentricities of a Nightingale/Ten Blocks on the Camino Real/Dragon Country) - Amazon.com Exclusive
DVD Review: Tennessee Williams TV Productions
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an Amazon.com special deal, with three television productions of Tennessee Williams's plays: "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real" (a very early PBS production, in black-and-white, from the mid-1960s); "Dragon Country" (two one-acts, done on PBS in 1970); "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" (a "Great Performances" production from 1976). Quite frankly, the technical aspects of the DVDs are only fair, they have not been "boosted" and show the broadcast standards of television in other periods (1960s-1970s); nevertheless, these are exceptional productions, with superb acting, and the great writing of one of America's premiere playwrights. A young Martin Sheen is an amazingly callow and touching Kilroy in "Camino Real", confronted with an array of characters including Lotte Lenya, Carrie Nye, Hurd Hatfield, Albert Dekker, Janet Margolin... one of Williams's most imaginative plays, and it gets a classic treatment. "Dragon Country" has Lois Smith, Alan Mixon, the legendary Kim Stanley and William Redfield giving touching performances in two short plays about people trying to connect but lost in their own dreamworlds (almost archetypal performances from Smith and Stanley). The finest production is the last: "Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is Williams's reworking of his "Summer and Smoke", and it features Blythe Danner and Frank Langella at their very best. In Danner's case, it is a bold performance, because she is not afraid of the character's silliness, the off-putting affectations, and she makes you see the wrenching sadness and loneliness under the nervous gestures. This was definitely a bargain, and i can hardly wait for the upcoming boxset of Tennessee Williams films (including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Baby Doll" and "Night of the Iguana") which will be released by Warner Home Video.
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