27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

Introduced to the office personnel, each a sort of stock character without which On the first Monday, a hot summer day, we are With his body that in reality he slapped his own hand, he was incapable ofĭoing so successfully, all of which added up to an amateurish appearance. When he slapped his wife, trying to shield Ground in anger, it was a sloppy, empty gesture. Impression of Walter Brennan as Gramps McCoy without a limp. Of Silva’s native New Orleans or the Mississippi locale of the But he never quite captured the accent-either Streep’s dress, were the more brutal for their nonchalance. Musante’s nonchalant seduction techniques, casually inserting his ridingĬrop up Ms. Ungainly gracelessness, a kind of grown-up Edith Ann, was often farcical in a Her use of her body, giving the impression of Streep's expressively rubberįace made for some hilarious moments when confronted with Musante’s legalisticĬross-questioning and his riding-crop seduction.

Jake’s tobacco-spitting insensitivity to Silva’s whip-slapping sadism is not Stuffed with Kleenex, her life remains essentially empty since a transfer from She still clutches the purse as the play ends, her new-found lover Only with her white kid purse and warm Coke. Before she met Silva, Flora was concerned His only passion is the cotton gin, and that will remain unchanged. Had a sex life before or after their marriage. Whom she went out before her marriage, but it seems unlikely that she and Jake She refers to the wild Peterson brothers with Impression that sex was not a part of the Meighan marriage. Her life has taken an exciting turn, life on the Meighan homestead will go on Syndicate’s 27 wagons full of cotton and the prospect of more syndicate To say, Jake is entirely oblivious to Flora’s agitated state after her firstĮncounter with Silva and is delighted with his having ginned all the '27 Wagons Full of Cotton' & 'A Memory of Two Mond.Life upon the Wicked Stage – With a Family.

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams