One Arm – 2022

“One Arm,” a short story by Williams, written in 1942 and initially published in an expensive limited edition, tells of an aspiring boxer who loses his arm in a car accident and turns to prostitution for a living. Abrahamse and Meyer have adapted that short story for the stage as a tour-de-force for two actors focusing on the relationship between the convicted hustler and a young Lutheran Minister who visits him on death row. Explicit and daring, One Arm gives a graphic account of the homosexual underworld during 1940s while at the same time, being one of Williams’ most poignant portraits of a mutilated body and soul.