![]() ![]() ![]() Amanda is a fallen Southern belle abandoned by her no-good husband and does not work, so it is up to Tom to support the trio through his tedious employment in a shoe warehouse. ![]() Early on, we find that Laura has failed at her typing course and now lives in dreams and through contemplation of her collection of decorative glass animals. The play is set in a worn St Louis tenement, which son Tom (played by Joel Jackson) shares with domineering mother Amanda (Mandy McElhinney) and his hopelessly shy, neurotic and lame sister Laura (Acacia Daken). move out and away because their conception of a fully realized life requires it. New production, directed by Clare Watson, reworks these elements to offer a production that is elegant and dreamy, like looking through gauze, even if the balance is not altogether smooth. The Glass Menagerie is the first American memory play in which a. The Glass Menagerie(1944) was classified by author Tennessee Williams as a “memory play”, and it includes all three styles. Much mainstage 20th-century theatre was a mercurial blend of three principal forms: melodrama, expressionism, and realism or naturalism. ![]()
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