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Title: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. by Williams. Tennessee, Tennessee Williams ISBN: 0-8222-0349-9 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $6.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Eccentric
Comment: This is a love story. What would happen if you loved someone who could never recipricate the feeling. That is what happens to Alma. This play explores this quest for love and the damages it can do on a small town girl. This story does not have that usual happy, well wrapped up ending that most of us expect stories to have.

Rating: 5
Summary: Williams' "revision" of "Summer and Smoke"
Comment: Tennessee Williams wrote "Eccentricities" in hopes that it would be produced in London in 1951. Unfortunately, the original version of "Summer and Smoke" was already in rehearsal. This new play cannot really be called a revision, as it consists almost entirely of new dialogue and situations. Certain characters from "Smoke" are absent (the Gonzales', Nellie, John's father) while another is added to "Eccentricities" -- John's mother. How does the play compare to "Summer and Smoke?" It is tighter, simpler, more direct, and the character of Alma is clearly more of a social outcast. However, Alma's transformation of John Buchanan is absent here, which keeps him in the background. "Eccentricities" is really Alma's play, whereas "Summer and Smoke" was a story of John and Alma. For fans of Williams, I recommend reading both and comparing -- a rewarding experience for any lover of the theatre and especially admirers of this fantastic author.