Fugitive Kind, one of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, is one
of his richest in dramatic material. Written in 1937 when the
playwright was still Thomas Lanier Williams, Fugitive Kind
introduces the character who will inhabit most of his later plays:
the marginal man or woman who, through no personal fault, is a
misfit in society but who demonstrates an admirable will to
survive. Signature Tennessee Williams' characters, situations, and
even the title (which was used as The Fugitive Kind for the 1960
film based on Orpheus Descending) have their genesis here.
At age twenty-six, Williams was still learning his craft and
this, his second full-length play, shows his debt to sources as
diverse as thirties gangster films (The Petrified Forest,
Winterset) and Romeo and Juliet. Fugitive Kind, with its
star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a
flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge,
where Williams spent Saturdays away from his shoe factory job and
met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers
and artists of the WPA, even gangsters and G-men. Fugitive Kind was
also Williams's second play to be produced by The Mummers, a St.
Louis theatre group devoted to drama of social protest. Called
"vital and absorbing" by a contemporary review in The St. Louis
Star-Times, this play reveals the young playwright's own struggle
between his radical-socialist sympathies and his poetic
inclinations, and signals his future reputation as our most
compassionate lyric dramatist.
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