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Available
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Publication
New Directions (1998), Edition: First, 163 pages
Description
'Not About Nightingales, never before produced or published, is an early play by the 27-year-old Tom Williams and the first play to carry his signature pen-name ''Tennessee''. It was rescued from Williams'' archive by the actress Vanessa Redgrave Written in 1938 and based on an actual newspaper story, the play follows the events of a prison scandal which shocked America when convicts leading a hunger strike were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams later said- ''I have never written anything since that could compete with its violence and horror.'''
Awards
Tony Award (Nominee — Play — 1999)
Outer Critics Circle Award (Winner — 1998-1999)
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Original publication date
1998
ISBN
0739403958 / 9780739403952