“It is Tennessee in disguise, right down to the thinning hair.” If this is the case, then you have to feel sorry for the man even though you cannot find any sympathy for the character he has created in Chance. “I think this is the most truly autobiographical play Williams ever wrote,” commented American director Elia Kazan.
Set in the Deep South of America in the 1950s, a time of turmoil and change with McCarthy’s witch hunt in full flow watching for any signs of the dreaded communism, most people are now more affluent, consumerism is rife, but there is a sense of unease and danger.
