One hot summer night in the house of the Mississippi Delta`s richest cotton planter, a family imprisoned by the past is torn apart by the revelations of feelings of lust, greed and envy.
27 Wagons Full of Cotton is a 1946 one-act that Williams referred to as "a Mississippi Delta comedy." In it, Jake, a middle-aged, shady cotton gin owner burns down the mill of Silva Vicarro, a rival in the cotton business. His rival, who knows what happened but cannot prove it, seeks revenge by