The Glass Menagerie
Ratings78
Average rating3.8
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Ratings78
Average rating3.8
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.
The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes."
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I think I can positively say that this is my favorite Tennessee Williams play! Touching, sweet, and relates to anyone whose dreams are being pushed aside in order to help the family survive. Every family will always have the dreamer, the person who lives in their memory and the person whose personality traps them from branching out and doing what they want to do. Tom, Amanda and Laura all created an atmosphere that anyone would want to step into, only if it is for a while and take in their story about what life truly is under all that false hope. In my current yearning for reading plays, this has to be one of my favorites, alongside DOUBT and FENCES (and more).
