Something Cloudy, Something Clear
by Tennessee Williams
by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams' play Something Cloudy, Something Clear makes its UK professional premiere, exploring love, art, and memory through the story of a young playwright in 1940 Cape Cod.
About The Play
About The Play
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A long-overdue opportunity for London audiences to see Tennessee Williams’ penultimate play in its UK professional premiere.
Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod in 1940, Something Cloudy, Something Clear re-imagines the events of a pivotal summer in the life of a playwright called August as he teeters on the brink of his first Broadway success. Living in a beach shack with only his phonograph, typewriter and a bottle of rum for company, August’s isolated existence is suddenly blown apart by the arrival of a young woman named Clare and her ethereally beautiful ‘brother’, Kip…
A delicately woven tapestry of past and present, vulnerability and toughness, impetuous action and mature insight, the play seeks reconciliation between love and art, life and death – the cloudy and the clear – exploring notions of time, of memory, and of love in its many forms.
Tennessee Williams’ other plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer and Not About Nightingales.
Directed by exciting young director Tamara Harvey, currently Assistant Director at Shakespeare’s Globe, whose future work includes the UK tour of The Graduate.