Chicago is My Home

13
Oct

Theater: ‘Suddenly, Last Summer’ a Liberating Lesson in Hot-Blooded Grieving

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Theater

CHICAGO – In my lifetime, Rob Reiner’s “The Princess Bride” has been one of the definitive films servicing the timeless romance and undying adventure in us all.

I haven’t felt actor Cary Elwes – and his indelible line “aaaas yoooou wiiiish” while tumbling down a hillside – in quite some time.

Catherine (Allison Batty) enjoys a rare afternoon of freedome under the
watchful eye of Sister Felicity (Tasha Ann James) in the Shattered Globe
Theatre’s production of “Suddenly, Last Summer” by Tennessee Williams.
Photo courtesy of the Shattered Globe Theatre

The character recently spoke to me again in an intimate, impeccably transformed Chicago playhouse amid Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly, Last Summer”.

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