Candles to the sun
Subtitle: a play in ten scenes
By: by Tennessee Williams ; edited with an introduction by Dan Isaac ; foreword by William Jay Smith.
Contributors: Isaac, Dan, 1930-
Publisher: New Directions Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts -- Drama.; Poor families -- Drama.; Labor unions -- Drama.; Coal miners -- Drama.; Alabama -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Never before published, the first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, Candles to the Sun opened on Thursday, March 18, 1937 and received rave reviews in the local press. The Mummers, a semi-professional and socially aware theater troupe in St. Louis, produced the play, and the combination of director Willard Holland's theater of social protest and the young Williams' talent for the dramatic depiction of poverty and its consequences proved irresistible to an audience eager for relevant social content. Set in the Red Hills coal mining section of Alabama, Candles to the Sun deals with both the attempts of the miners to unionize and the bleak lives of their families."--BOOK JACKET.