Theater Review: THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (L.A. " Glendale)
IN PRAISE OF ECCENTRICITIES It is not surprisng that Tennessee Williams preferred The Eccentricities of a Nightingale to Summer and Smoke. Freed of the conflict between Puritanism (repressed sexuality) and science (sexual liberation), Eccentricities is also freed from a good deal of the melodrama which afflicted Smoke. Instead, Williams offered up a delicate character study of Alma [...]