The Traveling Companion and Other Plays is a collection of experimental plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

 and published by New Directions in New York City in 2008. It is edited by Williams scholar Annette Saddik, who provides the introduction. The majority of the plays are from the last decades of Williams's life, and are markedly different from those for which he is most known, departing from Southern locales, melodrama and naturalism, and showing the influence of Noh theatre and the Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd is a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work...

. The plays have never before been collected and some are previously unpublished.

Plays

• The Chalky White Substance
• The Day on Which a Man Dies (An Occidental Noh Play)
• A Cavalier for Milady
• The Pronoun "I"
• The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde
• Kirche, Kueche, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage)
• Green Eyes
• The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer
• The One Exception
• Sunburst
• Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?
  Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis?
  Will Mr. Merriweather Return from Memphis? is a play by Tennessee Williams.Although he wrote it in 1969, it wasn't staged until January 1980, when the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, situated on the campus of Florida Keys Community College, presented it as their opening production...
  
  
• The Traveling Companion