Sweet Bird of Youth, Old Vic Theatre
A town called St Cloud, a girl named Heavenly and a faded star who feels she's living on the Moon: the imagery of Tennessee Williams' drama is celestial, yet he puts his characters through hell. Amid the clamour of church bells and self-righteous moral hypocrisy, this torrid play invokes castration, venereal disease and prostitution, with love and sexual passion colliding violently with repressive social strictures.r…