![]() ![]() I am now keen to pursue Williams a great deal further. There's overlap in theme and setting (the South, isolation) and that experience was excellent - this would clearly be even better in a decent production. My only other experience with Williams is a production of The Glass Menagerie. That comes as a bit of a shock after previously reading no drama except Ben Jonson this year, where-in you're lucky to get anything beyond entrance and exit instructions. ![]() Williams does some things I don't recall ever having seen before he discusses the audience in stage direction and at one point rambles off into philosophising about the purpose of drama and such like. Over-all I think I like the original version more. Then something strange happens - act 3 occurs twice! Williams has included his original draft of act 3 and the performance version, modified in response to the original director. The first act slowly winds up to a very dramatic finish and tensions are racked up higher still in act 2. ![]() Here, it's not really what the secrets are that's interesting, it's who the characters are and where the author's sympathies lie. ![]() On a sultry summer evening family meets and secrets are revealed.so far, so a zillion other plays. ![]()
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