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The Rose Tattoo
by Tennessee Williams
Set amongst the vibrant Sicilian community of New Orleans, Tennessee Williams' life-affirming tale is charged with desire, infatuation and blazing southern sun.
I can't swallow my heart! – Not till I hear the truck stop in front of the house and his key in the lock of the door! – When I call him, and him shouting back, 'Sì, sono qui!' In his hair, Assunta, he has – oil of roses. And when I wake up at night – the air, the dark room's – full of – roses… Each time is the first time with him. Time doesn't pass…All through the night Serafina craves her husband's return; at dawn, she learns he's been shot dead. For the next three years, she channels her fiercely passionate love into mourning, living on past glories while straitjacketing her vivacious daughter, Rosa.
But an ugly rumour gathers force to contaminate her memories, just as Rosa turns rebel and an eye-catching truck driver comes knocking at the door.
I want you to give me that little gold ring on your ear to put on my finger. – I want to give you my heart to keep forever! And ever! And ever!
Cast credits:
Bessie : Sarah Annis
Miss Yorke : Sheila Ballantine
Estelle Hohengarten : Sharon Bower
A Man : Jonathan Bryan
Father de Leo : Nicolas Chagrin
Teresa : Marilyn Cutts
Flora : Buffy Davis
Alvaro : Darrell D’Silva
Rosa delle Rose : Susannah Fielding
A Girl : Rendah Heywood
Peppina : Stephanie Jacob
Giuseppina : Katerina Jugati
The Strega : Rosalind Knight
Jack Hunter : Andrew Langtree
Violetta : Jules Melvin
A Doctor : Gerard Monaco
Ensemble : Marianne Morley
Assunta : Maggie McCarthy
The Salesman : Mac McDonald
Mariella : Sadie Shimmin
Serafina delle Rose : Zoë Wanamaker
Musician : Penny Bradshaw
Musician : Rachel Brown
Musician : Michael Haslam
Musician : Magnus Mehta
Musician : Robert Workman
Production credits:
Director: Steven Pimlott and Nicholas Hytner
Designer: Mark Thompson
Lighting: Peter Mumford
Music: Jason Carr
Sound: Paul Groothuis
The Rose Tattoo finished on: 8 August 2007
