''Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?'' is a short play by

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the thre ...

, premiering on 24 January 1980 at the Tennessee Williams Performing Arts Center,

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. Although the play was written but unpublished in 1969, it was not staged until January 1980, when the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, situated on the campus of

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, presented it as their opening production.''The Book Lover's Guide to Florida'' at Google Books
/ref> It is included in '' The Traveling Companion and Other Plays'', a collection of experimental plays by Williams, published by New Directions in 2008 in

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