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Dismantling the glass menagerie madison ferris seated plays the daughter and sally field the smothering mother in a revival of tennessee williams s the glass menagerie.
The glass menagerie is a great domestic tragedy with three very distinctive characters the strong proud amanda the weak and innocent laura and the realistic dreamer tom.
One is stuck in the past one complacent in the present and one is dreaming of a future.
There is no one tragic event here but a general condition of pathos.
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Were there no narrator we might have a more omniscient point of view.
Memories are a tricky thing.
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In the production notes to the glass menagerie williams writes disparagingly of the straight realistic play with its genuine frigidaire and authentic ice cubes generally williams found realism to be a flat outdated and insufficient way of approaching emotional experience.
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The glass menagerie is a symbol of laura and all of her fragility.
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This is the seventh broadway revival of the glass menagerie since its premiere in 1945 the most recent of them a revelatory 2013 production with cherry jones and zachary quinto.
One finds in this play an elegiac portrait of misery rather than a scalding enactment of taboo.
The effect of having tom as the narrator means that we see things from his point of view.
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This play only has four characters all very important.
Tennessee williams collides multiple personalities ejecting themes of.
A capturing drama of characters struggling with the illusion of time.
