27 Wagons Full of Cotton and other plays, Tennesee Williams, Nineteenth printing, New Directions Publishing Corp.
Like many fans of the American theatre, I am familiar with "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennesee Williams. I was not familiar of this collection of one-act plays. They are brilliant and inspiring at the same time. Most are set in the South the rest in the Midwest or West. All of them capture the essence of the human condition. One of my favorites is "Potrait of A Madonna". The heroine of the play is Miss Lucretia Collins, a mad, faded, belle, who states in all seriousness, "Your No'thern girls receive such excellent domestic training, but in the South it was never considered essential for agitl to have anything but prettiness and charm!"
I'll be keeping this one for the time being.
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