Review: Summer and Smoke

Tlaloc Rivas’s realization of Tennessee Williams’s play Summer and Smoke is incisive and moving; there are only a few performances left and if you’re a fan of great American drama I highly recommend that you see it. Rivas has said that he wanted to approach this play, first seen on Broadway some 60 years ago, as if it were new, or at least a newly discovered work; this he has done, along with his excellent collaborators, who have shone light on some of the less appreciated aspects of this less familiar work by one of America’s finest playwrights.