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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The New York Times
Rachel Saltz
May 9, 2008
Written in 1951, "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" was Tennessee Williams's revision of the more familiar "Summer and Smoke." He preferred "Eccentricities," he wrote in an author's note. "It is less conventional and melodramatic." Perhaps taking that as her cue, Jenn Thompson, the director of this excellent Actors Company Theater production, aided by a uniformly fine cast, keeps the Southern Gothic at bay. The production is brisk and taut, allowing Mary Bacon's Alma to shine.
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