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SUMMER AND SMOKE By Tennessee Williams Directed by Rusty Williams of Company of Fools - Hailey, Idaho April 17-19, 23-26 at 7:30pm; April 27 at 2:00pm, Stage II |
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One of Williams’ most romantic and lyrical
plays, Summer and Smoke explores the eternal struggle between the body and the
soul, the flesh and the spirit. Alma Winemiller, a proper minister’s
daughter, and John Buchanan, a brilliant but undisciplined young doctor,
have been neighbors and friends all their lives. While each senses something irresistible in the
other, they have remained virtually strangers. This is the story of their
halting and painful efforts to forge a passionate spiritual and physical
union. Like most natural writers, Tennessee could not possess his own life until he had written about it. This is common. But what is not common was the way that he went about not only recapturing lost time but then regaining it in a way that far surpassed the original experience. In the beginning, there would be, let us say, a sexual desire for someone. Consummated or not, the desire would produce reveries. In turn, the reveries would be written down as a story. But should the desire still remain unfulfilled, he would make a play of the story and then—and this is why he was so compulsive a working playwright—he would have the play produced so that he could, like God, rearrange his original experience into something that was no longer God’s and unpossessable, but his. The frantic lifelong desire for play productions was not just ambition or a need to be busy, it was the only way that he ever had of being entirely alive. Gore Vidal |
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