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Spring Storm

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  15w, 9m

A classic deep South tale of adolescent rites of passage.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    15w, 9m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

Details

Summary
Young Heavenly Critchfield is the girl all the boys want, especially the rich and refined Arthur Shannon, but she's in love (or lust) with the rough Dick Miles. The epitome of the tragic southern belle, Heavenly struggles to reconcile her sensual yearnings with her societal duty. The play, which takes place in the small town of Port Tyler, Mississippi in the Spring of 1937, is a classic deep South tale of adolescent rites of passage which prefigures the tragic female characters and lyric romanticism of Williams' later works, such as The Glass Menagerie.
History

Spring Storm was first performed publicly as a staged reading at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City in October 1996 under the direction of Dona D. Vaughn.

Keywords
DICK MILES
HEAVENLY CRITCHFIELD
REVEREND HOOKER
AGNES PEABODY
ETHEL ASBURY
SUSAN LAMPHREY
MRS. LAMPHREY
ARTHUR SHANNON
HERTHA NIELSON
LILA CRITCHFIELD
ESMERELSA CRICTHFIELD
OLIVER CRITCHFIELD
MRS. DOWD
MRS. BUFORD
MRS. ADAMS
HENRY ADAMS
FANNY
MRS. KRAMER
BIRDIE SCHLAGMANN
MABEL
RALPH
RONALD ASBURY
OZZIE
JACKSON
  • Time Period 1930s
  • Setting Spring 1937. Port Tyler, MS.
  • Features Period Costumes

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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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