Glass menagerie

Amy Adams stars in a restrained production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie in the West End, directed by Jeremy Herrin

Tennessee Williams has a knack for making me want to quote lines from his shows. These are the kinds of plays I can't wait to talk about for days after, and the current Denver Center Theatre Company's first-ever production of The Glass Menagerie exceeded each one of my expectations.

In Tennessee Williams’ poignant and touching play The Glass Menagerie, we are introduced to the Wingfield Family—Amanda, Tom, Laura and the absent father who is visible by only a picture in the St.…

The Glass Menagerie

|Eric BassEric Bass discusses the dramaturgy of puppetry in a production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie in Germany.

The following questions were considered during the World Café discussion in class today. Selected responses are recorded below. Is Amanda a good mother? YES –> good intentions toward her children, works to support the family, invests time and money into finding Laura a husband, stays with her children despite trouble, genuinely thinks her way is …

|Eric BassEric Bass discusses the dramaturgy of puppetry in a production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie in Germany.

Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, The Glass Menagerie is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Robert Bray. Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating…