The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs

The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs is a play written by William Motter Inge. Set in the 1920s in a small town in Oklahoma, the play follows the lives of the Flood family. Rubin Flood is a traveling salesman who is struggling to make ends meet, while his wife Cora is dealing with her own personal demons. Their daughter Reenie is a young girl who is trying to navigate her way through adolescence, while their son Sonny is dealing with the challenges of being a teenage boy. The play explores themes of love, family, and the struggles of life in a small town. It also touches on issues of racism and prejudice, as well as the challenges of living in a society that is changing rapidly. With its complex characters and powerful themes, The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs is a thought-provoking and compelling play that continues to resonate with audiences today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72.