St Jude’s Playwright
Michael Church, 5 September 1985
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
by Donald Spoto.
Bodley Head, 409 pp., £12.95, May 1985,0 370 30847 6 Show More
by Donald Spoto.
Bodley Head, 409 pp., £12.95, May 1985,
Tennessee Williams on File
by Catherine Arnott.
Methuen, 80 pp., £7.95, May 1985,0 413 58550 6 Show More
by Catherine Arnott.
Methuen, 80 pp., £7.95, May 1985,
“... The bird that I hope to catch in the net of this play is … the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent – fiercely charged! – interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis.’ Who among our contemporary playwrights would dare pen anything so shamelessly romantic? Who would even want to? Certainly not our Brenton-and-Hare political puritans, nor yet our Ayckbourn-and-Frayn tragicomedians ... ”