ABSTRACT

Tennessee Williams’s unproduced 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, at Circle in the Square Theater, shouldn’t be treated for one second as a minor curiosity, a virtuous excavation of the master’s juvenile work. Trevor Nunn’s remarkable production of the savage prison drama, together with the committed work of the British and American ensemble led by Corin Redgrave, have, firstly, done great honor to this forgotten play.