THE HOT L BALTIMORE by LANFORD WILSON
The American eccentric is no stranger to the U.S. stage. One thinks of such plays as The Time of Your Life, You Can't Take It with You and Harvey. The characters in those plays are part rebel and part kook, social dropouts, sort of sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer...
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