Thursday, December 02, 2021

Play review - "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams (1945)

 I think I studied this at my school. Not sure Williams is the best thing to teach boys at all-boys private school it trains them women are dreamers, nutters and horny. It's a beautiful play. Memory play - very theatrical with its narration and slides and so on. Better seen than read maybe? All three of the family are dreamers - Tom constantly goes to "the movies" (is he having gay sex?), Laura has her glass menagerie and cripple-dom, Amanda has her memories - as if Blanche got married to a straight man, but a bounder who left her. The Gentleman called is a little like Mitch - basically a normal mediocrity who stumbles upon this odd family. Doesn't have the power of Streetcar but doesn't have the sex or violence -except for the smashing of the menagerie.

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