Research On Tea And Sympathy
...in New York. He has written plays for the stage, screen, radio and television in addition to two novels. He educated at Harvard University, Anderson's first play was Tea and Sympathy. Some of his screenplays are as follws; Until They Sail, which received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay in 1957, Sand Pebbles (1966), The Nun's Story, is nominated for an Academy Award in, and I Never Sang for My Father which received an Academy Award nomination and was the winner of the Writers' Guild of America Award in 1970.
Robert Anderson was nominated for the Writer's Guild Award for his television drama, The Patricia Neal Story, in 1980, and was elected to The Theatre Hall of Fame. He received "The William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement" in 1985.
In 1991, two of Anderson's works were televised: The Last Act Is A Solo, winner of an Ace Award, and Absolute Strangers. He is the author of two novels, After and Getting Up and Going Home.
His most famous works as plays are the following: Tea and Sympathy (1953), Silent Night, Lonely Night (1960), The Days Between (1965) , You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967), I Never Sang For My Father (1968) , The Last Act is a Solo (1991); as novels: After Getting up and Going Home (1978).
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Tea and Sympathy was originally intended by its author to be a commentary on McCarthyism, but in the fifty years since it was written, it has become regarded as a landmark in the history of gay-themed theatre. McCarthyism is the term to describe a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. The term is named for U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a republican of Wisconsin, and was coined by editorial cartoonist Herblock in 1950. This period is also referred to as the Second Red Scare,...
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