While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.

The plays include - At Libert - The Magic Towe - Me, Vashy - Curtains for the Gentlema - In Our Professio - Every Twenty Minute - Honor the Livin - The Case of the Crushed Petunia - Moony's Kid Don't Cr - The Dark Roo - The Pretty Tra - Interior: Pani - Kingdom of Eart - I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sunday - Some Problems for The Moose Lodg

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams’s most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws, while the poet Hart Crane is confronted by his mother at the bottom of the ocean in Steps Must Be Gentle. Five previously unpublished plays include A Recluse and His Guest, and The Strange Play, in which we witness a woman’s entire life lived within a twenty-four-hour span. This volume is edited, with an introduction and notes, by the editor, acting teacher,...