Fugitive Kind, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his baleful factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers and artists of the WPA, gangsters and G-men. This is one of Tennessee Williams’s earliest plays, and one of his richest.
