Lower Manhattan’s Shakespeare Downtown brings the gothic heat, poetic intensity, and sexual tension of Tennessee Williams’ controversial and rarely performed “Tiger Tale” to the open-air walls of Castle Clinton. Geoffrey Horne directs Williams’ play about sexuality and power - based on Elia Kazan’s film “Baby Doll” - which itself was based on Williams’ one-act “27 Wagons Full of Cotton.” 

Tickets are free and available at the door of Castle Clinton National Monument at the Battery at 5:45 p.m. on the day of the performance.

In “Tiger Tail,” Archie Lee (Steven J. Cambria), a down-at-the-heels Mississippi cotton gin owner with a child bride, Baby Doll (Billie Andersson) crosses rival gin owner Silva Vacarro (Juan Pablo Toro) - the Sicilian who exacts his revenge by seducing the young bride.