Fugitive Kind

One of Tennessee Williams's earliest plays, Fugitive Kind, was first produced in 1937 and introduced characters and themes that `resurfaced in Orpheus Descending and other plays. Set in a Midwestern riverfront flophouse, it centers around the proprietress, Glory, and Terry Meighan, a gangster on the lam after a bank robbery. Tensions mount between the two, and they fall for one another, but all ends in tragedy. Mainly die-hard Williams fans will want this one and they're probably better of with it than with the lackluster film version, directed by Sidney Lumet.