Tennessee Williams, Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Jordan Sanderson (Auburn University); Raymond Wachter
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Something Cloudy, Something Clear

, Tennessee Williams’s last play, was first performed by the Jean Cocteau Repertory on August 24, 1981, at The Bouwerie Lane Theatre in New York. Eve Adamson, whose company performed several of Williams’s later plays including

Suddenly Last Summer

,

In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

,

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

, and

Kirche, Kutchen, Kinder: An Outrage for the Stage

, directed the play. Like many of the later plays,

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

was a critical disappointment. While Tennessee Williams continued to evolve as a playwright in the 1960’s and 70’s, critics rejected his later avant garde work and demanded the Williams of

The Glass Menagerie

,

A Streetcar Named Desire

, and

A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

.

Something Cloudy, Something Clear shows Williams,

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Citation: Sanderson, Jordan, Raymond Wachter. "Something Cloudy, Something Clear". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 March 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16712, accessed 29 March 2024.]

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