This production first began its strictly limited run on 10th November 2018, with press night on 20th November, and closed on 19th January 2019.
★★★★★
Rush to see this now, or live to regret it
The Telegraph
The girl who said ‘no’ – she doesn’t exist anymore, she died last summer – suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.
Trapped between desire and a life of obligation, Alma meets John and her world turns upside down.
★★★★★
Rebecca Frecknall’s whole production seems to tremble like a sustained, held high note: fragile, uncertain, almost unbearably tense.
The Independent
With ‘spellbinding, stripped-back staging’ (Financial Times), this intoxicating classic about love, loneliness and self-destruction evokes the simmering passions of a sweltering summer in small-town Mississippi.
The West End transfer of Tennessee Williams’ intoxicating and rarely staged classic, Summer and Smoke, follows a sold-out and critically lauded run at the Almeida Theatre. Directed by Almeida’s Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall with the full cast reprising their roles for the West End run.
★★★★★
It’s superb stuff: sensual, shimmering and sad
Financial Times
CAST
SEB CARRINGTON
NANCY CRANE
PATSY FERRAN
ERIC MACLENNAN
FORBES MASSON
MATTHEW NEEDHAM
TOK STEPHEN
ANJANA VASAN
CREATIVES
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS – Playwright
REBECCA FRECKNALL – Director
TOM SCUTT – Designer
LEE CURRAN – Lighting Designer
CAROLYN DOWNING – Sound Designer
ANGUS MACRAE – Composition
JULIA HORAN CDG – Casting