The Louisiana Book Festival has chosen Tennessee Williams’s iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning play “A Streetcar Named Desire” as its official 2017 One Book, One Festival selection. The play, which opened 70 years ago on Dec. 3, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway, is considered to be one of Williams’s greatest and has been in near continuous production and adapted to film, television, opera and even ballet.
A performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens Friday, Oct. 13, and runs through Oct. 29, 2017, at Cité des Arts of Lafayette.
Inaugurated in 2008, the One Book, One Festival program invites attendees to read the same title in advance and later join the scholar-led discussion with others during the festival on Saturday, Oct. 28. This year’s discussion will be led by Gary Richards, associate professor and chair of the Department of English, Linguistics & Communication at the University of Mary Washington and scholar of southern literature. He is the author of “Lovers and Other Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961” as well as numerous essays on southern fiction and drama.
This year’s festival will also include a program featuring WYES’s Peggy Scott Laborde, host of “Steppin’ Out,” in conversation with WWL-TV news anchor, Eric Paulsen. Eric, an award-winning journalist who has spent the last 30 years on WWL’s highly-rated morning and noon news programs, conducted the last broadcast interview with Williams, an interview held on the second floor of what was then “Marti’s” restaurant on the corner of Rampart Street in New Orleans. The program at the 2017 Louisiana Book Festival will include a screening of excerpts from that last interview.
The Louisiana Book Festival is free, open to the public, and takes place annually in the heart of Baton Rouge in the Louisiana State Capitol, State Library of Louisiana, Capitol Park Museum, and tents on neighboring streets. For more information, visit www.louisianabookfestival.org.
The Louisiana Book Festival is free, open to the public, and takes place annually in the heart of Baton Rouge in the Louisiana State Capitol, State Library of Louisiana, Capitol Park Museum, and tents on neighboring streets. For more information, visit www.louisianabookfestival.org.
Louisiana Book News is written by journalist Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and paranormal mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. The first books in her award-winning series are FREE as ebooks! For more information and to sign up for her newsletter visit www.cherieclaire.net.
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