In these three exotic, steamy dramas tennessee williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairsthe rose tattoo is set in a bustling, sicilian-american community, where newly widowed serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her romantic illusions about her dead husband shattered and rediscovers her true nature as a fiery prima donna, in a life-affirming celebration of love and sex tennessee williams explores a new wild and unrestricted theatrical form in the colourful tropical fantasy camino real, while orpheus descending, however, takes us into the dark territory of the deep south: the corrupt hell of a small, brutal township, where a forbidden and tragic love affair sparks horrific violence