A review by ickesea
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams

2.0

As a separate entity, it is a portrait of hysteria and unrequited love. Alma is obsessive and eccentric (as Tennessee tells us over and over) but by then end, she seems like a completely different person who has given up on all the things that mattered to here at the start of the play. Obviously we don’t know what happened between her and John in the space between the end and the epilogue, but it clearly wasn’t to her liking. I think because Tennessee Williams is so successful at evolving multiple characters over the course of ~120 pages, for there to be only one character that’s really worked on feels like a let down.

Compared to Summer and Smoke, this play was very bland. I’m not sure why Tennessee prefers this to his original version.