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(More customer reviews)This play was originally a failure when it was produced on Broadway. It was not until the 1952 Circle in the Square production directed by Jose Quintero and starring Geraldine Page (who also played the part to perfection in the 1962 film version) that the show became a success. The original production must have been poorly done, because the play is a masterpiece even when one simply reads it. An allegory that takes place in Mississippi during the first decades of this century, the story concerns Alma Winemiller, a proper but slightly affected minister's daughter, and John Buchanan, a young doctor with a penchant for the fast lane. Over the course of the play, the two come to understand each other with more clarity and compassion, until they are each transformed. The character of Alma is said to have been Williams' own favorite. This is Williams on a par with "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." -- NOTE: This is the acting edition of the play and differs slightly from the reading edition, which includes a deleted prologue showing John and Alma as children.
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