Spring Storm

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rdf:langString Spring Storm is a three-act play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. He began writing it when he was twenty-six years old, in 1937, while enrolled in the University of Iowa's drama school, and completed the play the following year. But Williams's playwriting teachers had a negative response to Spring Storm, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California. In 2001, the play was produced at Willoughby Fine Arts Association in northeast Ohio, directed by Lenny Pinna. The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill. Both productions subsequently transferred to the Royal National Theatre in 2010 to the Cottesloe Theatre. Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression. The Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia (PAANDA) presented Spring Storm in 2018. The play was directed by Courtney McManus and Stage managed by Carmel Mohen. The play's original title was "April is the Cruelest Month," which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." When Williams presented Spring Storm to his playwriting class in April 1938, he wrote in his diary that the class, "Read the final version of my second act and it was finally, quite, quite finally rejected by the class because of Heavenly's weakness as a character. Of course, it is very frightening and discouraging to work on a thing and then have it fall flat. There is still a chance they may be wrong-- all of them-- I have to cling to that chance...."