Margo

Résumé du livre

How did this thriving resident-theatre movement begin? With the pioneering work of one woman: Margo Jones, dubbed by her friend Tennessee Williams the "Texas Tomado" and "a woman of destiny." When Margo Jones established her theatre in Dallas in 1947, it was both the first modern professional resident theatre and the first professional theatre-in-the-round in this country. A passionate believer in new plays, Margo encouraged the early work of not only Williams but also William Inge, Horton Foote, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee. She premiered Williams's Summer and Smoke and Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and had the courage to produce Lawrence and Lee's now-classic Inherit the Wind in Dallas after it had been turned down by every major Broadway producer.