The young doctor John checks Alma's heart

Summer and Smoke

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January 10th 2019
Is the rarely performed Summer and Smoke first rate Tennessee Williams? I don’t know, but I’ve never seen a more powerful production of any of Williams's plays. The script is perhaps a bit schematic: Alma is the minister's hypersensitive daughter, a young woman who never tires of reminding us that her name means “soul” in Spanish. She is infatuated with John, the young doctor who se ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more