Summer and Smoke
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
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