{"id":40450,"date":"2014-02-15T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8ce250469d.nxcli.io\/?post_type=theatre-review&p=40450"},"modified":"2020-08-23T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:19:50","slug":"the-fat-mans-wife-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment-focus.com\/2014\/02\/15\/the-fat-mans-wife-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fat Man\u2019s Wife review"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Fat Man\u2019s Wife was written in the late 1930s when Tennessee Williams was in his twenties, and a good decade before his most famous plays. Perhaps, like a lot of writers, Williams was keen to conceal his early works, seeing them as feet-finding exercises, since the Fat Man\u2019s Wife lay undiscovered until 2000 \u2013 seventeen years after the playwright\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
An intriguing question that arises given the circumstance surrounding the play, and the significance of this being the first ever performance of it in the UK, is would the playwright be turning in his grave to see a long-buried work brought to life, or delighted?<\/p>\n
Well, we\u2019ll never know. But judged on its merits, The Fat Man\u2019s Wife is a well-written and simply but clearly structured one-act play. There are flashes of vintage Williams in the dialogue, and the characters are embryos of his most famous creations.<\/p>\n