For example, Williams preferred a soft light in his frightened disillusioned characters because they "so often want to withdraw from the blinding light of reality into the softer world of illusion" (Stein 20). ... Following the success of Streetcar, Williams and Mielziner continued their partnership and worked together on six more productions: Summer and Smoke, Cat on the Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and The Kingdom of Earth. ... Then, the tension reached a boiling point when, during the production of Cat on a...

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