Fugitive Kind

Fugitive Kind

Fugitive Kind

Fugitive Kind

Fugitive Kind

Overview

Fugitive Kind, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his baleful factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, gangsters and G-men. This is one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, and one of his richest.

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Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “ ...
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