Eternally haunted by time’s flight (“The enemy, time, in us all”), Tennessee Williams is a leading figure of 20th century American theatre. Actor and director Miguel Loureiro brings to the TNSJ stage The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963), one of Williams’ final plays, and Boom!, that play’s screen adaptation, written by the playwright in 1968. Out of this negotiation between stage play and screenplay, works marked by strangeness and maladjustment, redemption and eroticism, Miguel Loureiro creates a show of “excesses about Excess”. At its centre we find Flora Goforth, a widow who dictates her memories to a secretary in an Italian villa, and Chris Flanders, a sort of “angel of death”, whose work consists in providing support to rich old ladies who are preparing to die. Boom! lingeringly looks at these unique beings, at the fading of their charms and at the “Great Unknown” that awaits them. “No explanation, no translation, just boom”.