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Summer and Smoke review " gripping return for rare Tennessee Williams by Michael Billington

Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain's most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Tennessee Williams feels like a major discovery. Williams began it in 1945 and endlessly revised it. Now a young director, Rebecca Frecknall, has given it a complete makeover. Eschewing realism, she adopts the expressionist tactics fav…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AM on March 8, 2018

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