Tennessee Williams (present, name Thomas Lanier Williams, 1911–1983) is an outstanding American playwright and prose writer, author of the plays A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descends into Hell and many others. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1948, he became for American drama a unique symbol of the Deep South, in all its bewitching mixture of genius and darkness, realism and fantasy, eccentricity and drama. Is it because his plays continue to be performed on the best stages in the world because the witchcraft spirit of the Deep South contained in them retains its morbid charm, no matter how many years have passed? The peaceful, quiet life of an Italian family in Louisiana is destroyed after a driver truck Rosario Delle Rosa was killed by police while trying to smuggle contraband. His widow, Serafina, who was energetic in her youth, is increasingly having problems with her life over the years; over the years, she withdraws more and more into herself, trying to set her daughter Rosa on the right path, and “builds” her in her own image and likeness. And then one day Rosa grows up and leaves her, Serafina learns that her deceased husband once had a mistress, and another handsome Italian, a truck driver, enters her own life... First production - Erlandger Theater, Chicago, 29 December 1950 First production in the USSR - Moscow, Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, 1976