Capital District Playwright and actor Patrick White will take on the accent and persona of Tennessee Williams starting April 24 when the one-man play Youth a Distant Country opens at Schenectady's Mopco Improv Theater. White was inspired to. make a career in drama when he starred in Williams Glass Menagerie as a high school student He is thrilled to be portraying Williams in a play that is based on letters Williams wrote over 30 years to friends and family, starting when he was a teenager. It's a daunting task to fill 90 minutes on a stage by yourself. White is. working daily now to memorize -- line by line -- 52 pages of dialog. This is a segment from the podcast An Armao Beyond The Brink and Fighting Back. You can find the full version of the. interview on your favorite podcast platform.