The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Olympia Dukakis keeps 'Milk Train' driving hard
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore could hardly be described as under-appreciated. The play, by Tennessee Williams, is not often performed, it's true, but it’s a middling work, one that almost feels like a pastiche written by someone whose admiration for Williams outweighs his understanding of him. Take the contentious mother-daughter relationship from Glass Menagerie, the bottled-up female sexuality from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the creepy attraction to much younger men from Streetcar Named Desire, the exotic seaside setting of Suddenly Last Summer, and bits and pieces of at last half a dozen other works and you’ll have Milk Train. More
