Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Why didn’t Tennessee Williams love the film adaptation of Suddenly Last Summer?

Gideon Lester, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Fisher Center at Bard, discusses the Hollywood film's local Barrytown connection through screenwriter Gore Vidal, and how this new opera adaptation embraces the mystery and psychology at the heart of Williams’s play.

Learn more and book now at fishercenter.bard.edu/series/suddenly-last-summer.

Video by A Doll's House Pictures (adollshousepictures.com).