Synopsis

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale $13

Tennessee Williams

Published by Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

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

One of America`s master playwright's most hauntingly beautiful plays, as produced on Broadway, and now made widely available for the first time

"This is a warm, rich play full of that compassion and understanding and that simple poetry of the heart that is Mr Williams at his shining, gentle best" ~ NY Times

" representative of Williams at his most wonderful the sheer poetry of his language still comes with surprise" ~ NY Post

" a powerful, more often than not heart-rending tale of a spinster undone by dreams some moments exhale a poetry beyond description" ~ NY Magazine

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