adapted from a short story by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Kari Margolis

@ The Gifford House - 9 Carver Street

Running time: 60 minutes

A pent-up inventory clerk discovers a door to the roof of the tall building where he carries out his tedious work. Secretly a poet, he sneaks daily to the roof to watch the Mississippi River roll freely to the sea, inviting him to dream of escape.

The set-up is the same as in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie: a clerk, a secret poet, up on the roof, dreams of escape.  In Williams’ famous play, the secret poet escapes by joining the merchant marines. In Flight, adapted from Williams’ story, “Episodes in the Life of a Clerk,” the secret poet finds freedom by taking a long-awaited leap of faith.

He remembered the way that the door had opened so easily, at the touch of his fingertips.

-Flight