The Loneliness of Tennessee's "Traveling Companion"

In 5 yrs of coming to this festival I never cried. Until yesterday. Tennessee's "The Traveling Companion" shows his incredible loneliness in an encounter with his much younger "companion" in a hotel room in NY. The much smarter, older writer tries all of his tricks to get the younger man into his SINGLE bed in the room when a power of wills break out with the bed being used as the battlefield. At one point the incredible Jeremy Lawrence as Tennessee answers a pointed question about living somewhere permanently with "where would I go?" His searing look into your eyes brings the loneliness of one of our greatest writers front, center and in your face. This man of many men and parties was now a lonely, older man with no one to share a bed, home or life with. I welled up with tears during that monologue and then again after discussing the play. I feel so close to this man that his self descriptive words went straight through my heart into my soul. It's what great playwrights do. 2 more shows today...so..off into the misty morning on the cape to discover his next work, aptly titled "Something Cloudy..Something Clear".