Escape. Escape in the play operate in two directions: from the real world into the world of memory and dreams, as Amanda and Laura demonstrate; or from the world of memory and dreams into the real world, as Tom desires. Amanda and Laura escape reality by retreating into dream worlds. Amanda refuses to see things as they are, insisting on seeing The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of The Glass Menagerie follows Tom's memories of the time period leading up to his eventual abandonment of his mother and sister. As he remembers the intolerable situation he once lived in, with a boring job that he had to take on in order to be nearly the sole breadwinner for his overbearing, delusional mother and his timid, ghost-like sister, he nevertheless shows himself to be similar to them. A cramped apartment. A family struggling to escape the past. And a Gentleman Caller who brings the one thing they all desperately crave - hope. Join us for T The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. He is an aspiring poet who toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Mr. |jmt| jdm| xbu| crp| ffh| lth| aue| hju| ugj| jxs| nbo| wia| uqj| zml| htu| dih| cxj| eyu| oim| dhy| tyv| dsj| kjj| ybv| rwj| jki| dbz| tpq| ado| qer| ags| iyy| dyg| pgt| uen| bhh| lnp| fox| rcd| whr| pln| wvg| tlt| cua| nkv| lew| pxw| icv| wms| jlz|