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| | Tennessee Williams - Suddenly Last Summer - Eclipse Theatre Chicago |
 | | Anne Meacham, as a girl who has been the sole witness to her cousin's unbelievably shocking death, is brought into a 'planned jungle' of a New Orleans garden to confront a family that is intensely interested in having her deny the lurid tale she has told. |
 | | The post-dilettante's mother is, indeed, so ruthlessly eager to suppress the facts that she had the girl incarcerated in a mental institution and she is perfectly willing, once she finishes her ritualistic five o'clock frozen daiquiri, to order the performance of a frontal lobotomy. |
 | | Under the assorted, and thoroughly fascinating, pressures that are brought to bear, and under the intolerable, stammering strain of reliving her own memories, Miss Meacham slowly, painfully, hypnotically paints a concrete and blistering portrait of loneliness
of the sudden snapping of that spider's web that is one man's life, of ultimate panic and futile flight. |
| www.eclipsetheatre.com /season/1999/suddenly-last-summer.php (213 words) |
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