Tennessee Williams's play Orpheus Descending (recently at the Theatre for a New Audience) was the first of his works to be produced. While it is not one of his masterpieces, it is still rich, sad, funny, fascinating, and compellingly overwrought. As described on TFANA's website, the play "tells the story of the passion of two outcasts"Lady Torrance, a storekeeper's wife and daughter of a murdered Sicilian bootlegge…
