The encounter one Sunday morning of four women--a Southern-belle teacher awaiting a call from the man she hopes to marry, her German roommate, a fellow teacher, and a distraught neighbor--illuminates the meaning of loneliness, compassion, and compromise.
About the author:
Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.
These two plays were later filmed, with great success. Both plays included references to elements of Williams' life such as homosexuality, mental instability, and alcoholism.