Not About Nightingales - Brossura

"Not About Nightingales" is a three act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1938. The play itself focuses on a group of inmates who go on a hunger strike in attempt to better their situation. There is also a soft love story, with the characters Eva, the new secretary at the prison, and Jim, a handsome inmate who works for the warden and is trying to get out on parole. Williams gained inspiration for the play, after reading newspaper accounts of inmates suffocated in a steam room in a Pennsylvania prison.Although the play was originally written in the 1930s, it wasn t discovered until the late 1990s when British actress, Vanessa Redgrave, made it her personal mission to track it down.Einstein Books' edition of "Not About Nightingales" contains supplementary texts: An excerpt from "Spring Storm", Williams' first play that he wrote one year before writing "Not About Nightingales." A few selected quotes of Tennessee Williams.