See some plays: Spring Storm

Website: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

Last night ABJ and I went to see the Tennessee Williams play Spring Storm at the National Theatre. The play was in the smaller Cottesloe Theatre which we had to hunt around to find.

Apparently the play was written when the young Tennessee Williams was in a writing class but the teachers and students were so negative about it that he put it away and it was only rediscovered after his death.

While I was waiting for ABJ I saw a "Watch This Space" performance by a troupe of jugglers in the area outside the theatre:
The play showed hints of Tennessee Williams' later works and was a story about a love triangle in the American South. The actors all spoke with a southern accent which made it fun to imagine what their real accents were.

The set and the set changes were very impressive - the set was a kind of squashed house and the set changers involved energetic people running in and restructuring the debris into a library or a living room.Summary: Good early Tennessee Williams.