Review: "Outraged Hearts" Abound in a Pair of Tennessee Williams One-Acts
Outraged Hearts: The Pretty Trap and Interior: Panic Written by Tennessee Williams Directed by Jaclyn Bethany Presented by The Fire Weeds in association with Houghton Hall , BKE Productions, and FutureHome at Houghton Hall Arts Community 22 E 30th Street, Manhattan, NYC May 15-30, 2025 L to R: Chris Ghaffari, Jaclyn Bethany, Jacob Storms, Megan Metrikin. Photo by Joey D'Amore. Tennessee Williams's (1911-1983) The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) have long since secured a central place in the pantheon of 20th-century American theater. Their single-act precursors, however, The Pretty Trap (1944?) and Interior: Panic (1945-46), remain far less widely known and produced. Under the title Outraged Hearts, New Orleans-based theater company The Fire Weeds, founded by Jaclyn Bethany and Lin Gathright and "dedicated to innovative storytelling through a female-driven lens," fruitfully juxtaposes these underseen one-acts in a theatrical double bil...