You Touched Me!
| You Touched Me! | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Tennessee Williams Donald Windham |
| Based on | You Touched Me by D.H. Lawrence |
| Directed by | Guthrie McClintic |
| Date premiered | September 25, 1945 (1945-09-25) |
| Place premiered | Booth Theatre, New York |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | romantic comedy |
| Setting | A house in rural England in the Spring of 1943. |
You Touched Me! is a 1945 American stage play by Tennessee Williams and Donald Windham based on a story by D.H. Lawrence.
The original production starred Edmund Gwenn and Montgomery Clift. It went for 109 performances.
Reception
The New York Times wrote "this second of Mr. Williams's dramas to reach the local boards is not an improvement nor an advancement; in fact, it represents quite a step down. Another discussion of the groping for life, You Touched Me! is verbose and filled with lofty and long speeches; it needs editing as well as cohesion. Finally, it does not have the warm acting which glossed over the imperfections of "The Glass Menagerie," for the members of its cast play in several styles. It is, in short, a disappointment."[1]
Adaptations
The play was adapted for British television in 1956[2] and American television in 1954[3] and 1957[4].
References
External links
- You Touched Me! at Playbill
- You Touched Me! at IBDB
- You Touched Me! at Concord Theatricals
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Works by Tennessee Williams
- Candles to the Sun (1936)
- Spring Storm (1937)
- Fugitive Kind (1937)
- Not About Nightingales (1938)
- Battle of Angels (1940)
- Auto-da-Fé (1941)
- The Glass Menagerie (1944)
- You Touched Me! (1945)
- Stairs to the Roof (1947)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
- Summer and Smoke (1948)
- The Rose Tattoo (1951)
- Camino Real (1953)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
- Orpheus Descending (1957)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)
- Period of Adjustment (1960)
- The Night of the Iguana (1961)
- The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
- The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968)
- In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (1969)
- Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? (1969)
- Out Cry (1971)
- Small Craft Warnings (1972)
- The Two-Character Play (1973)
- The Red Devil Battery Sign (1975)
- This Is (An Entertainment) (1976)
- Vieux Carré (1977)
- A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979)
- Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980)
- The Notebook of Trigorin (1981)
- Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981)
- A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)
- In Masks Outrageous and Austere (1983)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
- Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
collections
- Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954)
- Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories (1960)
- The Knightly Quest: a Novella and Four Short Stories (1966)
- One Arm and Other Stories (1967)
- Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: a Book of Stories (1974)
- The Glass Menagerie (1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- The Fugitive Kind (1959)
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
- Boom! (1968)
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (1957, filmed 2008)
- "The Catastrophe of Success" (1947)
- "A Streetcar Named Success" (1947)
- In the Winter of Cities (1956)
- Androgyne, Mon Amour (1977)
- The Glass Menagerie (1950)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
- The Fugitive Kind (1960)
- Summer and Smoke (1961)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961)
- Period of Adjustment (1962)
- Sweet Bird of Yourth (1962)
- The Night of the Iguana (1964)
- This Property Is Condemned (1966)
- Boom! (1968)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
- The Glass Menagerie (1987)
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
- Three by Tennessee (1958)
- The Glass Menagerie (1966)
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)
- The Glass Menagerie (1973)
- The Migrants (1974)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)
- Orpheus Descending (1990)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
