THEATRE + COMEDY

The Country Playhouse (Town & Country Village) Black Box Productions presents In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Don Hampton.

Fridays and Saturdays
MAR. 13 - 28, 2009 at 8pm

A painter and his wife, both rich and famous, yet somehow unable to find their way any longer play out their desperation in a hotel in Tokyo.

She entertains herself in the bar attempting to satisfy her lust and vanity while the painter secludes himself in his room, certain to stay until he has left his mark on the whole of art, itself.

Superficially the play is about the painter—famous, rich and lost—and his wife, who find themselves in a Tokyo hotel. The wife is wildly promiscuous and the painter wildly insecure.

One of Tennessee Williams' "off the beaten path" pieces, it may be his most personal and confessional.

Originally An off-Broadway presentation, this characteristically forceful and affecting play reveals, with unstinting honesty, the deep personal agonies of creative expression and the awful isolation and estrangement that this can demand of the artist.