The Glass Menagerie
Glass Menagerie, The Author: Tennessee Williams
First Performance: 1944, Chicago
Published: 1945; rev. 1970
Genre: Drama in 2 acts
Setting: Tenement apartment, St Louis, 1944 and 1930s
Cast: 2m, 2f
The action is presented as a reminiscence of his home life some 10 years previously by Tom Wingfield, now a merchant seaman in the Second World War. His mother Amanda, whose husband deserted her years ago, keeps house for Tom and his gawky and crippled 24-year-old sister Laura. Amanda, who dreams of an imagined past when she was wooed by a rich plantation owner, is furious when she discovers that Laura has dropped out of secretarial school. Instead of trying to find a husband, Laura spends much of her free time tending her menagerie of glass animals. After a row with his domineering mother, in which some glass...
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