Eight by Tenn at Boston Center for the Arts

Acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams is widely known for full-length works like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire, but he was also a prolific writer of one-act plays. Although they aren't performed often because of their brief runtimes, Williams considered his short plays to be some of his best work, saying, "The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope." In Eight by Tenn at the Boston Center for the Arts' Plaza Theatre, Zeitgeist Stage opens their 16th season by presenting eight short plays written by the master dramatist: The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Portrait of a Madonna, Auto-Da-Fe, This Property is Condemned, Something Unspoken, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, The Unsatisfactory Supper, and The One Exception.