Word: merlo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tennessee Williams wrote Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? in 1969, when he was mourning the death of his friend Frank Merlo. Despite numerous freshets of humor, an undertow of grief runs through the drama. Williams put the play away for a decade. With the opening of the fine arts center bearing his name, he felt it was best to inaugurate the theater with a work no one had seen...