Clear Space Productions has mounted an evening of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, running through Sunday—and if the poignant, misty chamber music of early Williams is your cup of tea, you’d better run to see it.

These one-acts are harbingers of Williams’s great, full-blown achievement.  There are hints here of Blanche in “Streetcar Named Desire,” of “Summer and Smoke,” of Amanda Wingfield in “Glass Menagerie,” and of other characters and full-length plays by the man who is arguably America’s finest playwright.  What a gift Clear Space has given us, this surreptitious peek into the clouds just beginning to gather before Williams’s aching, drenching storm.

In a burst of directorial inventiveness, Ken Skrzesz has stitched the six one-acts together with original sung narration (music by Doug Yetter, performed by Jerry Birl), and staged them on a single set that John Moller’s lights transform and accent into a bedroom here, a living room there, even a porch. All the plays are set in the French Quarter of old New Orleans.

The cast is uniformly excellent, including Jean Houck’s turn in “Lord Byron’s Love Letters” and a riveting, whining, sniffling powder keg of a performance by David Button in the crackling “Auto De Fe,” fueled by Valorie Jarrell’s drive-ya-crazy mother.

No strangers to local audiences, Liz Roe and Dick Pack edge the soft, dark heartbreak of “Talk to Me Like the Rain” almost to perfection.  Pack hits just the right note of seedy desire while Roe, in a role that is clearly a forerunner of Blanche du Bois, takes us gently into a mind gone sour and leaves us there to mourn.

“Six Rooms,” taken from Williams’s collection, “27 Wagons Full of Cotton” are performed in an excellent venue -- the small theatre/auditorium at Cape Henlopen High School on King’s Highway in Lewes.  This show continues through September 23.

 Joe Plummer is a retired professor of Mass Communications at King’s College, and performs locally as Dickens, Shakespeare and Shaw.