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DC Theater Review: AvantBard’s ‘Suddenly Last Summer’

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Suddenly Last Summer — Photo: DJ Corey AvantBard Theatre sets a sultry mood for Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer (★★★☆☆) by commencing the evening with Williams’ lesser-known one-act, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen.

Featuring an unnamed Woman (Miss Kitty) and Man (Erik Harrison) lounging in a Hell’s Kitchen flophouse, the brief drama — written in 1953, four years before Summer — bears no relationship to the later play, and traverses only the slightest plot of its own.

The audience surrounds scenic designer David C. Ghatan’s set of tall window panes practically caging the couple inside, echoing their palpable sense of feeling trapped — with each other, with their lot in life.

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