Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival

Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival

This year’s Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival features the play Spring Storm.  Williams wrote this play, set in the fictional town of Port Tyler, Mississippi, in 1937-1938 while finishing his undergraduate degree in the theater department at the University of Iowa. The play is about the unrequited love of four young people in a small Delta town near the Mississippi River which closely resembles Clarksdale. The play features local landmarks in Coahoma County such as Moon Lake, Friar’s Point, the Carnegie Public Library and St. George’s Episcopal Church and is filled with character types and story elements that Williams would develop in several of his later plays.