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''Spring Storm'' is a 1937 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams wrote ''Spring Storm'' when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while studying as an apprentice. ''Spring Storm'' received poor reviews in Williams’s playwriting course, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside ''Beyond the Horizon'' by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression. The play's original title was “April is the Cruelest Month,” which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem “The Waste Land.” When Williams presented ''Spring Storm'' to his playwriting class in April 1938, he wrote in his diary that the class, “Read the final version of my second act and it was finally, quite, quite finally rejected by the class because of Heavenly's weakness as a character. Of course, it is very frightening and discouraging to work on a thing and then have it fall flat. There is still a chance they may be wrong-- all of them-- I have to cling to that chance....” == Summary == ; PLACE: Port Tyler, a small Mississippi town on the Mississippi River ; TIME: Spring, 1937 Act One: : A high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River on a spring afternoon Act Two: : ''Scene 1'' — The Critchfield home. Friday afternoon, the same week : ''Scene 2'' — Same, that evening : ''Scene 3'' — Same, three o'clock in the morning Act Three: : ''Scene 1'' — Lawn of the Lamphrey residence, the next evening, a party in full swing : ''Scene 2'' — The Port Tyler Carnegie Public Library, the same evening : ''Scene 3'' — The Critchfield home, late afternoon of the next day 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spring Storm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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