Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival

Join us 32nd Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival

Schedule:

9:15 AM  Tennessee Williams 101 With Augustin Correro, Founding Co-Artistic director of the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans and author of Tennessee Williams 101. Limited free copies of Tennessee Williams 101 (2021) will be available. When those run out, the book can be purchased for $20.

10:15 AM History and Analysis of Spring Storm | With Tom Mitchell, Emeritus Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois.

11:15 AM  Scholar Panel: The Significance of Tennessee Williams moderated by W. Ralph Eubanks, Faculty Fellow and Writer in Residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, in conversation with Special Guests.

Noon Lunch on your own at one of Clarksdale's fine restaurants

Afternoon All afternoon presentations are at the Carnegie Public Library  114 Delta Avenue

2:00 PM  Writing Spring Storm | With Karen Kohlhaas, Williams scholar, documentary filmmaker and curator of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum. Featuring film clips from Karen's documentary that depict what Williams' life was like as he wrote our featured play, Spring Storm.

3:00 PM  Site-Specific Scene Performance from Spring Storm by the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans

4:00 PM  Book Talk  Searching for My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams Online discussion with author Melanie McCabe

Evening  Address TBA

5:30PM-7:30PM  Wine and Cheese Party at Eva's with Very Special Guest, legendary actor and director Austin Pendleton, in conversation with Karen Kohlhaas. Address TBA.