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Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m
Tennessee Williams
Image: 2018 Almeida Theatre Production (Marc Brenner)
Winner! 2019 Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play
A play that is profoundly affecting, Summer and Smoke is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is basically attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until the end does the doctor realize that the girl's high idealism is ultimately right, and while she is still in love with him, it turns out that neither time nor circumstances will allow the two to come together. Because of the explicit details provided by the author's production notes, the stage directions, and the diagram of the set design, nonprofessionals should have no difficulty in mounting the play effectively.
Summer and Smoke premiered at the Magic Box Theatre in New York City in March 1948 under the direction of Margo Jones.
Glorious Hill, MS. Turn of the centruy to 1916.
“Simmering desire.” — Financial Times
“Williams challenges the lazy binaries by which women are so often defined: prude or slut, angel or devil.” — The Arts Desk