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The action takes place in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, shortly before the First World War. Alma Winemiller, a sensitive and lonely young woman, has become increasingly restive and disturbed by the fear that she will remain a spinster. Hemmed in by her stern minister father, and her deranged mother, she makes a final, and almost desperate attempt to win the man of her choice—a young doctor whose social-climbing mother frowns on his attachment to Alma. The play centers on the complex relationship between these two; her touching attempts to sway his emotions; and his uncertainty as to where his heart should lead him. In the end there is to be only one truly beautiful moment between them—for neither can break the ties of family and position which draw them apart and which, inevitably, defeat Alma's hopes for a new and fuller life.
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Juan Gonzales
reviewed The Eccentricities of a Nightingale on January 20, 2010
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Only read this if you're interested in seeing how Tennessee Williams's talent went way downhill as he aged, and for god's sake never perform it. This is a re-working of his 1948 play SUMMER AND SMOKE, and first performed as THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE in the 1970s. Williams succeeds in cutting or retooling everything that made his earlier work so beautiful. Instead of a wonderful doomed love story between the main characters Alma (representing old-fashioned Southern gentility a la Blanche DuBois) and John (representing animal sexuality a la Stanley Kowalski), Williams emasculates John's role in the play and strips Alma of her Blanche-comparisons, leaving her just crazy instead of a woman of the wrong time. Always attractive to theatres, Williams does succeed in cutting the number of characters (including the two children), but it is impossible to read both this and SUMMER AND SMOKE and not bemoan the drastic reduction in quality.
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