Two by Tennessee:

This Property is Condemned and The Lady of Larkspur Lotion

Waterfront Playhouse

March 13, 2022 | 8pm

The Waterfront Playhouse will feature This Property is Condemned, a Tennessee Williams play featuring Kelci Grooms and Ervin Tumm for one performance.  The double bill will also include Williams’ lesser-known work The Lady of Larkspur Lotion featuring Barbara Mundy, Donna Stabile and Ross Pipkin.

This Property is Condemned is a 1946 play written by Tennessee Williams.  The Depression-era story takes place in the fictional Mississippi town of Dodson.  Owen Legate, a representative of the railroad that provides much of the economic base for the town, comes to Dodson on an unpopular errand.  Alva Starr, a pretty flirt who finds herself stuck in the small town and is attracted to the handsome stranger.

Taking place in a beat-up old boarding house in New Orleans, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion is a light drama about the frustrations of a landlady (Mrs. Wire) and her troublesome tenant (Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore).  In the neighboring room an aspiring writer – but a better drunk (the Writer), finally decides to speak up for the what is true.