The 27th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival continues the mission of presenting programs on the life and works of Tennessee Williams in the context of Clarksdale and Coahoma County history. This year’s festival will focus on Williams’s sister, Rose, and important women in Clarksdale’s history. The Festival is thrilled to announce Clarksdale, Mississippi’s Writer’s Trail marker dedicated to Tennessee Williams, which will be celebrated with a speech from Pulitzer Prize winning, Mississippi playwright, Beth Henley and a grand lawn party.
Programming will include a rare performance of an unpublished Williams’s manuscript; actor and author, Jeremy Lawrence, who has completed a book on Rose Williams, will perform his one-man based play on Williams’s writings 0n his sister; and welcome new and returning scholars as well as local and visiting actors for site specific performances. There will be new displays at the Tennessee Williams Rectory museum including: a student monologue and scene competition at the community college, college-level Williams acting class, a talk at St. George’s Episcopal Church, and porch plays.
