Women don’t have it so good in Tennessee Williams’ plays, and Orpheus Descending is one of his darkest. In the production at St. John’s Lutheran Church in the village, you can see why this one, with its histrionic speeches and soap opera story, is rarely produced. Which is why this production, low budget and noble, is its own kind of miracle, set where Christ and the apostles in stained glass can look on in sympathy and dismay. In Lady Torrance (Irene Glezos), Williams created a formidable heroine who is running the store, while her elderly husband (the legendary film star Keir Dullea) languishes sick. In comes a stranger (Todd d’Amour), a young man in a snakeskin jacket, who needs a job. Can you see where this is going?
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