Playboy After Hours
June, 1959
In writing, performance and direction, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth is nerve-shattering theatre. It is Williams at his most degenerate to date, swamp-deep in violence and evil and the miasmas of spiritual decay, but he accords his victims a large share of compassion and supplies them with a moral for their epitaphs. His achievement is to make you care for two people who are despicable and damned. One is a faded movie star on the lam from her lost youth and Hollywood; the other is a ti...
