Small Craft Warnings

by Tennessee Williams

LYRIC DRAMA

A crass menagerie of misfits in a small seaside bar survive on hope. There could hardly be a more perfect setting than Provincetown for this rare play.

directed by Patrick Falco

featuring Gail Phaneuf and Joe MacDougall

TW THEATER FESTIVAL

Provincetown, MA

Williams sets up camp on O'Neill's turf: a bar at the end of the world, shrouded in ocean fog, in which a collection of misfits huddle like birds evading a storm.

Unlike O'Neill's eternally damned pipe-dreamers, Williams' crass menagerie of barflies -- an itinerant beautician, her loutish boyfriend, a lovesick short-order cook, the girl he's in love with, and an alcoholic doctor -- survive on hope and the possibility of heaven.

"There are times when Williams can be very like O'Neill, but O'Neill in a warmer, easier climate."
- Clive Barnes, The New York Times, 1972