NAC Salon Presents The Tennessee Williams Project

Nettles Artists Collective and East 3rd Productionscontinue their commitment to producing engaging free staged readings of Tennessee Williams' work with a presentation of Kingdom of Earth directed by Alaina Albertson.

The Tennessee Williams Project, by East 3rd Productions, aims to engage citizens with the writer's work through free readings which are followed by an engaging and democratic post-reading discussion exploring the relevance of Williams' work in contemporary society.

Kingdom of Earth is a serio-comedy first produced in 1968. The play focuses on Lot, an impotent transvestite obsessed with the memory of his mother. He returns to his ancestral home accompanied by his new bride, Myrtle, a sometime prostitute and former showgirl. She soon discovers Lot only wants to use her to steal the deed to the property from his multiracial half-brother Chicken, who has lived on and farmed the property for years. Once Chicken meets Myrtle, he gets some romantic designs of his own.

This is the second presentation of the project hosted by Nettles Artists Collective's Salon Series in their artistic home in midtown Manhattan, Punto Space. This past September, Nettles Artists Collective's Salon Seriespresented The Rose Tattoo. The Nettles' Salon Series exist in the spirit of 17th century French salon gatherings which aim to inspire, provoke and, most of all, engage through conversation. The collaboration between the two companies seem like a natural one, unifying their common purpose between the Salon Series and The Tennessee Williams Project.