Summer and Smoke

By Tennessee Williams

Music & Theater Hall

October 10-12 & 17-19

TheaterCNU begins our new season with a play written by arguably the greatest American playwright of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams.  Summer and Smoke -written at the same time as his Pulitzer Prize winning play, A Streetcar Named Desire-is a bittersweet romantic drama of smoldering and repressed passion set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi right before World War I.  The play centers on Miss Alma Winemiller, a young minister's daughter who struggles with her "affliction of love" for the boy next door-the handsome, charming and dissolute Dr. John Buchanan Jr.  Their romantic tension arises from John’s hedonistic lifestyle, which is in stark contrast to Alma's strict Episcopalian upbringing.  What happens during this summer will lead to lives being changed forever in ways no one could have imagined.