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Synopsis

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Directors Notes

Tennessee Williams has written best about the southern American society he knows so well in which absurd pretensions to refinement and illusions of grandeur mask a shabby genteel reality.

He established his reputation with “The Glass Menagerie” in 1945-it is a play which is free from the violence and sensationalism that has characterised much of his other works for the stage. It is distinguished by positive qualities of insight and sympathy which are the better part of its author’s sensibility and artistry.

Tennessee Williams was soon to write more active and vigorous plays than “The Glass Menagerie”, but it is doubtful that he ever excelled its controlled spontaneity and its sureness of observation and expression. The play seemed to have come directly from a life he had known and felt, and that had undergone a natural transformation into art. Awareness of human contradiction and self delusion is always present, as well as the sad realisation that we may not be able to break out of our prison cell without leaving others behind.

“The Glass Menagerie” is a self-styled “memory play” in which the remembered world is lived intensely and made, we hope in this production, meaningfull.