- Period of Adjustment
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name = Period of Adjustment
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director =George Roy Hill
producer = Lawrence Weingarten
writer =Isobel Lennart Tennessee Williams
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starring =Anthony Franciosa Jane Fonda Jim Hutton Lois Nettleton John McGiver
music =Lyn Murray
cinematography = Paul Vogel
editing = Fredric Steinkamp
distributor =Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = October 31, 1962
runtime = 112 min
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0056341Period of Adjustment is a 1960 play by
Tennessee Williams that was adapted for the screen in 1962, in a film directed byGeorge Roy Hill and starringJane Fonda . Both the stage and film versions are set onChristmas Eve and tell the gentle, light-hearted story of two couples, one newlywed and the other married for five years, both experiencing pains and difficulties in their relationships. The two male characters are war veterans (Korean War ). The younger of the two suffers frompost traumatic stress (shellshock ,battle fatigue ,combat stress reaction ), while the older man suffers from feelings of inadequacy towards his wife, the daughter of his boss. However, the observance of each other’s troubles brings both couple to realize what they have and to reconcile their own relationships.Williams wrote the first draft of the play in November 1958, "in a rush of activity partly induced by drugs." [cite book |last=Spoto |first=Donald |authorlink= Donald Spoto |title=The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams |year=1985 |publisher=Little Brown |location=Boston |id=ISBN 0-306-80805-6 p. 228.] It was workshopped for a week in December 1958 and officially premiered at the
Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway onNovember 10 ,1960 . The play, which Williams subtitled "a serious comedy," was a departure from the playwright's usual dark dramas, and was written partly in response to a Hollywood columnist who had asked why his plays were always "plunging into the sewers." [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1711289,00.html Delicate people | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books ] ] Williams responded to the criticism by writing "Period of Adjustment" and arguing, in a piece that ran in "The New York Times ",The play received average reviews and closedMarch 4 ,1961 after 132 performances. In February 2006, the play was revived at theAlmeida Theatre .References
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