CAST

VIOLET - Natalie Britton
DOC - Bryan Hands
MONK - Marc Forde
BILL - Sam Donnelly
LEONA - Carola Stewart
STEVE - Steve Miller
QUENTIN - Quan Pemberton
BOBBY - Daniel Farrow
TONY - Steven Hyndman

CREW

Directors: Michael Williams and Sukhraj Dhillon
Stage Manager: Steven Hyndman
Set Designers: Fernando de Souza & Chris Mounsey
Costume Designer: Rachel Goldsmith

PRODUCTION NOTES

One of Williams’ later plays, Small Craft Warnings is set in a seedy Southern California coastal bar with a cast of characters so real they could have only been drawn from the Williams’ life.

This play is often not regarded as one of Williams’ best, since the years of drinking and depression took its toll on the “connective tissue” that makes his masterpieces so amazing. But the voice is still there and Small Craft Warnings is a play that must be seen to understand the totality of one of the greatest American playwrights. The bar serves as a "place of refuge for vulnerable human vessels" and the motley crew that stumbles in this evening is no exception. Amongst them is a doctor that has been barred from the profession because of his drinking, Bill the loser stud, Violet the vulnerable young thing, Quentin the washed up dandy screenwriter and Bobby the young farm boy he picked up on the side of the road – all of which are framed by Monk the steadfast bartender and Leona, a trailer park beautician celebrating the death of her gay violinist brother.

This play reveals Williams’ more advanced career as he delves into subjects, such as his own homosexuality, in a more truthful manner than he ever did twenty or thirty years before writing Small Craft Warnings. Williams’ heartfelt play, nonetheless bubbles along with a humour that out times is laugh out loud funny. You’ve seen A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Night of the Iguana; now see one of the last stops in the Tennessee Williams’ anthology that puts the rest into perspective.