Synopsis

Battle of Angels

$13

Tennessee Williams

Published by Dramatists Play Service

1 Female

As in its later, and substantially re-written version, the play deals with the arrival of a virile young drifter, Val Xavier, in a sleepy, small town in rural Mississippi

He takes a job in the dry goods store run by a love-starved woman whose husband lies dying upstairs, and his smoldering animal magnetism soon draws out her latent sexual passion

As it must, their liaison sets tongues wagging, and invokes the scorn and jealousy of the townspeople, male and female alike. And, as the play probes ever more deeply and poignantly into the troubled psyches of its protagonists, a sense of inevitable tragedy grows, leading on to a denouement of overwhelming and chilling intensity

"It is plainly the work of Williams in full glory. There is a wealth of poetry in its language, love and passion in its heart and master craftsmanship in its construction" ~ NY Post

"An evening of renewal and reclamation" ~ NY Times

"A major theater event" ~ Record

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