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"Spring Storm" is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams wrote Spring Storm when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice. "Spring Storm" received poor reviews in Williams s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression.The play's original title was April is the Cruelest Month, which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. When Williams presented Spring Storm to his playwriting class in April 1938, he wrote in his diary that the class, Read the final version of my second act and it was finally, quite, quite finally rejected by the class because of Heavenly's weakness as a character. Of course, it is very frightening and discouraging to work on a thing and then have it fall flat. There is still a chance they may be wrong all of them I have to cling to that chance.... Einstein Books' edition of "Spring Storm" contains supplementary texts: An excerpt from "Not About Nightingales", by Tennessee Williams."Not About Nightingales" is a three act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1938. The play itself focuses on a group of inmates who go on a hunger strike in attempt to better their situation. Although the play was originally written in the 1930s, it wasn t discovered until the late 1990s when British actress, Vanessa Redgrave, made it her personal mission to track it down. A few selected quotes Of Tennessee Williams.
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- PublisherCreatespace Independent Pub
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1470021293
- ISBN 13 9781470021290
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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