New York City Is Going MAD for Tennessee Williams!!!

Clearly, SOMEONE wants Kevin Spacey to play Tennessee Williams in the movie. I'm cool with that!!!

http://tennesseewilliamsbiography.com/


‘An amazing achievement. By far the best full biography of Tennessee Williams ever published.’

Kenneth Holditch, co-editor, Library of America’s Plays of Tennessee Williams

Kenneth Holditch ALSO gave my memoir a RAVE REVIEW.

>>> BUT FIRST, EVERYTHING'S COMING UP WISTERIA!!!:

This Draping Wisteria Looks Like Purple Rain, Will Leave You Dazzled

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/wisteria-ashikaga-flower-park_n_5627999.html

Or see the wisteria blooming in front of the JUST BURNED DOWN Confederate "REBELS' REST" at Sewanee (aka The University of the South), which controls ALL THE RIGHTS to Tennessee Williams' work: http://theweathercontinues.blogspot.mx/2014/07/the-lord-hath-spoken.html

"Rebel's Rest" at Sewanee. Pity the poor Confederates.

At least the wisteria is fine . . . 

1. A few last words of advice to me, and my response, from yesterday's business:

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  Denise Mac Lean Behave Scott.

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  Jay Gollner Scott see a doctor stat (sic)

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  Scott Kenan Jay Gollner: Thanks for your compassionate concern, but the Kenan family has a documented history of many having the strength or courage of ten men -- going back to Gen. James Kenan of the American Revolution, and I see doctors fairly frequently, as I've had a carcinoma removed and some lung and heart troubles now under control. On the other hand, many White Supremacists and Political Party Partisans of both parties want me to shut up, and with no credentials, declare me crazy rather than face the many ugly truths about our sick country. If you are one of those, GOOD LUCK!!! Patriots are uniting to save our country from fear-based "Christian" bull crap and greedy politicians on both sides of the isle.

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  Scott Kenan That would be aisle, typically.

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2. JUST POSTED TO BIPOLAR AND LIVING MED FREE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205246246335877/

Scott Kenan

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I look forward to hearing the stories of others. At age 28 in 1978, I was diagnosed bipolar I, and was on Lithium for 31 years, but was taken off in 2009 because I'd been symptom-free for years, then. My story is complicated by political matters, but I am fine now -- and acknowledge I probably WAS bipolar through 1992. I used spiritual quest to come to terms with my symptoms, which could be severe, but now they are like lambs. I SUPPORT scientific research into this, but also alternatives and do NOT recommend anyone go off meds unless they have a strong spiritual understanding (NOT religious!!!, although that might be OK as a second thing), and a strong support system.

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  Nikki Bishop I feel like I'm finally cluing into the spiritual aspects of this disorder, but I'm afraid that my current medical team doesn't see things the same way that I do. Perhaps my best option then is to find assistance with a new medical team.....

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  Scott Kenan If you read the scientific literature, it is full of uncertainty. If you are mostly OK with any meds, I would suggest you stay with the same medical team, but explore spirituality carefully. In 2009, I met online a Canadian who lives with his wife, a psychologist, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He developed a HUGE collection of videos on bipolar and spirituality, but more from a Jungian perspective. I visited them for a week and helped him re-edit his book with many improvements (I used to work for playwright Tennessee Williams), and now he will be touring Europe, lecturing this fall. Here is his website. I just checked now, and he is actually now offering this book FREE (as well as for money on Amazon, etc.): http://www.bipolarorwakingup.com/
  

  
  

  bipolarORwakingUP - The Spiritual Side of Bipolar Disorder

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    Nikki Bishop Hm. I've heard of Sean and I've listened to all of his short films on Youtube. Thanks for pointing him out again. He is quite interesting and I like his spiritual take on things.

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    Scott Kenan I'm not saying he's for everyone -- one shoe does NOT fit ALL!!!

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ALSO: Just like in "REAL LIFE", reading about anything and ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING, are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. To read something that feels right to you and then not ACT, will plunge one into DEPRESSION (and more meds).

>>> SO WHAT IS COMING UP TENNESSEE WILLIAMS???


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"The Young Vic's production of A Streetcar Named Desire has become the fastest-selling in its history – presumably driven by the presence of Gillian Anderson, an actor who is doing some of the best work of her career but is rarely seen on stage."

NT Live to screen A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson in theaters WORLDWIDE!!!

Theatre fans across the world will be able to watch the much-anticipated production, which is the fastest-selling in the Young Vic's history

Gillian Anderson as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Photograph: Johan Persson

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/17/nt-live-a-streetcar-named-desire-gillian-anderson-young-vic

2. RETURN ENGAGEMENT!!!

"Mr. William Shuman inhabits Tennessee Williams, body and soul from the time he comes onstage. Tennessee Williams’ story, behind his writings, is a mesmerizing one you just cannot miss!"

Winner of 2013 New York International Fringe Festival “Overall Excellence Award for Solo Performance”, ‘En Avant! An Evening with Tennessee Williams’ is a highly personal one-man play that explores the family dynamic, the seminal work, the most important lovers and the demons that shaped the development of the man considered by many to be America’s greatest playwright.

Written and performed by William Shuman, En Avant!… provides a unique view into the heart and mind of this admittedly “wounded man”.

Tennessee Williams was American Theatre for much of the 20th century. And though many of his master works continue to be produced, the legacy of the man himself is slowly being lost.

A profound understanding of the human condition lives in the dialogue of his characters and in the verses of his poetry and it is through examining the life that produced this dialogue and these verses that we can fully appreciate the great gift that was Tennessee Williams.

‘En Avant! An Evening with Tennessee Williams’ is Mr. Shuman’s attempt to insure that this brilliant but admittedly “wounded” man is remembered by all those who treasure the lyric beauty of his writing.

MORE HERE: http://stage72.com/ai1ec_event/en-avant-an-evening-with-tennessee-williams/?instance_id=


3. And a NEW YORK CITY film festival of the movies of Tennessee Williams' plays was just announced, coordinated with the release of John Lahr's biography Sept. 22.


The Internet is SO CLOGGED with all things Tennessee Williams, I can't even find the announcement, now.

YIPPEE!!!

Scott

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