A play worth reading in a time where a lot of is can relate. Dec 22, Jared rated it really liked it. He wrote this while still young and the play definitely has its shortcomings, like that ending, but overall i really enjoyed it. Dec 30, Teo rated it it was amazing. Very simple and uncomplicated play, but very touching as well. Something that we all identify with at some point in our life, I think.
It was interesting, and fitting, I think, that fantastical surrealistic elements were used. In the strange twist of fate that brings the Girl and Ben Murphy together, and Very simple and uncomplicated play, but very touching as well. In the strange twist of fate that brings the Girl and Ben Murphy together, and the strange whirlwind of a journey that they undertake as Alice and Rabbit in Wonderland. It started to get odder and odder or should I say curiouser and curiouser! E and the final plot twist.
I think I would have liked it very much better if the fantastical elements were limited to the semi-believable surrealism that marked most of their midnight journey. But it ended on a feverishly triumphant note that wasn't all too inappropriate for the tone of the play, I reckon.
And the strangeness of the magic involved can be excused as Williams' awkward writing in a process of growth as a writer as he himself acknowledges in the postscript. Overall an enjoyable read, and not a let down even after reading his more mature works! Aug 03, Kate rated it really liked it. Certainly not Williams' best, but it's close to my heart for many reasons -- It takes place in St.
Louis, where he had a nervous breakdown holding a corporate-like job, the main character hides in the bathroom and writes poetry during work, he bitches about Wash U, it actually has strange fantastical elements to it you don't see in his later work, and it's about setting yourself free, from whatever is keeping you caged.
Whether you've made your own cage or someone has locked you in, this is for Certainly not Williams' best, but it's close to my heart for many reasons -- It takes place in St. Whether you've made your own cage or someone has locked you in, this is for all of the wild at heart. I'd probably give it a 3.
It's fun to read. View 1 comment. Jan 15, Alice Urchin rated it it was amazing Shelves: owned. This is one of Tennessee Williams' earliest plays. The message is an idealistic one, but while reading it, I really just wanted to quit my job and run away to Las Vegas and become a professional mermaid or something. Jan 09, Brandon rated it it was amazing Shelves: plays-and-scripts-read.
Loved this play. I think it's up there with my favorites now. Ralitsa rated it it was amazing Dec 16, Andrew rated it really liked it Jul 03, Derek M rated it it was amazing Jun 02, Melanie rated it it was amazing Jan 30, Adam rated it really liked it Mar 06, Kristen rated it it was amazing Jul 27, Heather rated it really liked it Jun 29, Cara Working rated it it was amazing Apr 16, Sarah Ann rated it it was amazing Aug 02, Sylvis rated it it was ok Apr 25, Stairs is Williams' revenge, expressed through his alter ego, Benjamin Murphy, the clerk who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock, the monotony of his eight-to-five job, and all the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized and commercial society.
Ben's swift-moving series of fantastic adventures culminate in an escape from the ordinary that is an endorsement of the American dream. In with the world at war and civilization in danger of collapse, Williams dared to imagine a utopian future as Ben leads us up his stairs towards the Millennium.
Stairs to the Roof was produced only twice, once at the Playbox in Pasadena, California, in , and subsequently at the Pasadena Playhouse in Now, in an edition meticulously prepared by noted Williams scholar Allean Hale, Williams fans can share this play of youthful optimism. But before there was Tom, there was Ben played here by the outstanding Craig O'Brien , "the Hamlet of Continental Shirtmakers," who discovers the literal and metaphoric stairs to the roof of the office building.
He goes up there to escape. As with the great tragic characters who will follow in later Williams plays, the need to escape and the futility of escape are always the engines of life and drama. The plot thickens with desperate love for a character named only Girl the lovely Lauren Berman and bizarre nighttime adventures wait for the swan. The numbing routines of the office, controlled by Mr.
Gum Matthew Weil , combine with the crushing domestic routines of all these adventurous but now married young men who graduated in the class of , to stifle the "wild incredible fact that we're alive. It will turn out that the cosmos is controlled by a Mr.
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