The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Louisiana who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same. The Broadway play starred Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach both of whom recreated their roles for a 1953 hour-long radio adaptation on the program Best Plays. Recordings of the radio drama exist in archives and private collections.
The film was adapted da Williams and Hal Kanter and directed da Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo furgone, van Fleet.
On May 12, 1957, The luccio Theatre staged "The Rose Tattoo" with Anna Manahan as the lead and the Irish scenic artist Reginald Gray as the set designer. After a short run the theatre was invaded da the Irish police and director Alan Simpson was arrested for producing "a lewd entertainment" for miming dropping a condom onto the floor. Williams' script calls for a condom to fall out of a pocket during the mostra but the luccio staging mimed the act, knowing it would cause conflict. An intellectual revolt against the closing of ""The Rose Tattoo"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led da playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, ruled: 'I can only infer that da arresting the accused, the object would be achieved of closing down the play.' One of the results of this case was that any charges brought against theatre would have to be proved before the mostra could be forced to close.[1]
The 2007 revival at the Royal National Theatre starred Zoë Wanamaker and Susannah Fielding.
New Directions Publishing reissued the play in 2010 with a new introduction da playwright John Patrick Shanley.
The film was adapted da Williams and Hal Kanter and directed da Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo furgone, van Fleet.
On May 12, 1957, The luccio Theatre staged "The Rose Tattoo" with Anna Manahan as the lead and the Irish scenic artist Reginald Gray as the set designer. After a short run the theatre was invaded da the Irish police and director Alan Simpson was arrested for producing "a lewd entertainment" for miming dropping a condom onto the floor. Williams' script calls for a condom to fall out of a pocket during the mostra but the luccio staging mimed the act, knowing it would cause conflict. An intellectual revolt against the closing of ""The Rose Tattoo"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led da playwrights Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The presiding judge, Justice O'Flynn, ruled: 'I can only infer that da arresting the accused, the object would be achieved of closing down the play.' One of the results of this case was that any charges brought against theatre would have to be proved before the mostra could be forced to close.[1]
The 2007 revival at the Royal National Theatre starred Zoë Wanamaker and Susannah Fielding.
New Directions Publishing reissued the play in 2010 with a new introduction da playwright John Patrick Shanley.
