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Candles to the Sun
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The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams
to be produced, Candles to the Sun was premiered by The Mummers,
a semi-professional and socially aware theatre troupe in St Louis on
March 18, 1937, and received rave reviews in the local press
Set in the Red Hills coal mining section of Alabama and dealing with both the attempts of the miners to unionize and the bleak lives of their families, the play, according to St Louis Star-Times critic Reed Hynds, is “an earnest and searching examination of a particular social reality set out in human and dramatic terms”
Working principally from a script supplied by Jane Garrett Carter (who
played Star in the original production), Dan Isaac, as he did in his
edition of another “early” Williams’ play, Spring Storm, uses his
directorial and scholarly skills to prepare a version as close as
possible to the 1937 production while providing contemporary readers
(or actors) with the necessary social, political and theatrical context
to make the play accessible and relevant once more
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