Events & Programs

This March, the 26th to be exact, will mark the one hundred year anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ birth, one of America’s greatest, most prolific, influential and well known playwrights. In celebrating his legacy, this series of film lectures will focus on major themes explored in the film versions of Williams’ plays and how they are expressed cinematographically.

Extracts of three films, Sweet Bird of Youth on Tuesday 15 March, Suddenly Last Summer on Tuesday 5 April and The Night of the Iguana on Tuesday 26 April, will be shown and analyzed, and through the talents of actors such as Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Katherine Hepburn we will uncover not only Williams’ view on the human condition but also fundamental truths about our society and ourselves. Join Tama Carroll for this special film series celebrating Tennessee Williams.

“He used love like most men use money”, the tag line used to promote Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) sums up the magnetically charming main character, Chance Wayne, played by a young, sensual Paul Newman, who shows here a very different side than in his role for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. With this film we’ve completely entered into typical Tennessee Williams territory, the southern setting, the dominating father, the tragic love story and the pull between right and wrong, innocence and guilt. In the words of Chance, “each of us has his own private hell to go to” and luckily for us Williams uses humor to get us there, so fasten your seat belts we’re in for a wild ride.

About Tama Carroll
Tama Carroll's passion with film started at a very early age, and culminated in a double major in Film and Cultural Anthropology (US) and a Masters of Film (Paris). Acting school, theater productions and various filmmaking programs soon followed. Currently writing screenplays, she is also the Editorial Director for DreamAgo, a network of professionals in the filmmaking field with branches in Paris, LA and Madrid and an annual Screenwriting Lab & Film Festival in Switzerland.