Summer and Smoke review " gripping return for rare Tennessee Williams
Almeida, LondonPatsy Ferran proves she is one of Britain's most exciting actors in a major and wrongly neglected work by the great playwrightAs it is so rarely seen, this early play by Tennessee Williams feels like a major discovery. Williams began it in 1945 and endlessly revised it. Now a young director, Rebecca Frecknall, has given it a complete makeover. Eschewing realism, she adopts the expressionist tactics fav…