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  2. Sweet Bird of Youth Summary. Next. Act One, Scene One. It is morning at the Royal Palms Hotel in St. Cloud, a town on the Gulf Coast. Chance Wayne wakes up next to the middle-aged woman with whom he has been traveling. Getting out of bed, he tries to cure his hangover while she goes on sleeping.

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  3. Plot Summary. Sweet Bird of Youth is a three-act drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Tennessee Williams. First performed in 1959, the play chronicles the relationship between shiftless gigolo Chance Wayne and alcoholic has-been movie star Alexandra Del Lago, a.k.a. Princess Kosmonopolis. Chance has brought the Princess to his ...

  4. Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams that tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. The main reason for his homecoming is ...

  5. Sweet Bird of Youth Summary. Sweet Bird of Youth opens in a room at the Royal Palms Hotel in the fictional Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud. Chance Wayne, an infamous local, has returned to the town after years of trying to make it in Hollywood. He was run out of town years ago after infecting Heavenly Finley, the daughter of a local politician ...

  6. Sweet Bird of Youth. Summaries. A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again. Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies.

  7. A drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results. ISBN_13: 9780822211044. Estimated read time: 4 min read. One Sentence Summary. A young gigolo seeks fame and fortune in his hometown, but his past catches up with him. Table of Contents.

  8. Summary. PDF Cite Share. Act 1, scene 1Sweet Bird of Youth opens in a hotel room in St. Cloud, Florida. In bed are Princess Kosmonopolis (the alias of aging actress Alexandra del Lago)...

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