A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Australian premiere of Williams' last play.

It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties - a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics--the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony.

 Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women, Williams explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through "the long run of life."