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Orpheus descending

"Life is disrupted in a Mississippi backwater when two women fall in love with a musician"--TV guide, September 24, 1990.

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  • "Tennessee William's Orpheus descending"@en

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  • ""Life is disrupted in a Mississippi backwater when two women fall in love with a musician"--TV guide, September 24, 1990."@en
  • "A woman lives a loveless life in a boring Southern town, until a young stranger brings out her long-forgotten sexual passion."@en
  • ""Orpheus Descending" as Williams explained is the story of "a wild-spirited boy who wanders into a conventional community of the South and creates the commotion of a fox in a chicken coop." The protagonist, an itinerant guitarist, is a latter-day Orpheus who is destroyed when he descends into the arid hell of a small Southern town to rescue Lady from the impotent embrace of her cancer-doomed husband. The play is based on the character Orpheus from Greek mythology."@en
  • "Lady Torrance lives a loveless life in a boring southern town, until Val, a handsome young stranger in a snakeskin jacket, brings out her long-forgotten sexual passion. While they give in to their forbidden desires, Lady's tyrannical husband lies dying. Jabe Torrance may be too weak physically to satisfy his wife, but his Klan is powerful enough to kill the flame between the lovers and burn the body of the young man who fired her lust."@en

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  • "Made for TV movies"@en
  • "Television"@en
  • "Plays"@en
  • "Made-for-TV movies"@en
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Drama"@en

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  • "Orpheus descending"
  • "Orpheus descending"@en
  • "Orpheus descending (TV movie : 1990)"@en

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