![]() ![]() I choked on the words and turned rudely away from the usually sincere person. "I got so sick of hearing people say, 'I loved your play!' that I could not say thank you anymore. ![]() In his long-obscure but now famous essay "The Catastrophe of Success," Williams pours forth his misgivings about the early work that brought him fame and fortune, and forever saddled him with expectations to make merely more plays in the vein of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But then, in my defense, neither was Williams. It takes a special kind of playwright to unequivocally love Tennessee Williams's most cherished plays. ![]()
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