Candles to the Sun

by Tennessee Williams

Book Overview

The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, Candles to the Sun opened on Thursday, March 18, 1937 and received rave reviews in the local press. The Mummers, a semi-professional and socially aware theater troupe in St. Louis, produced the play, and the combination of director Willard Holland's theater of social protest and the young Williams' talent for the dramatic depiction of poverty and its consequences proved irresistible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215741
• ISBN13: 9780811215749
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"