A 13-year-old girl walks precariously along a railroad track— and life.
As early as 1941, when This Property is Condemned was written and first published, Tennessee Williams was in possession of a personal mythology embodied in the circumstances of the Mississippi Delta: the severe winter landscape, through which a train track runs as a pathway to and from another world; the day’s white sky and the possibility of a blue star that might appear at night; talk of a ghost who turns out to be the character most present; a woman’s enjoyment of sexuality in a world where such enjoyment is doomed. These visions would unfold in four more decades of plays, short stories, essays, and poetry.
In a 1974 Calgary Herald interview, Williams said about the play “It’s the best piece of writing I’ve ever done.”
The production, staged in Provincetown Town Hall and on the front lawn of the historic Cabral House by David Kaplan, for the twentieth and final Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, features Alison Fraser (two-time Tony nominee for Romance/Romance and The Secret Garden). John F. Higgins plays her 14-year-old admirer. Jeff Glickman provides a live blues score.
Rehearsal photo: Amanda Glickman
Town Hall photo: Luke Bosco
Cabral House photo (with banana): Jen Zee
