![]() ![]() 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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