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But two critics loved the show, and returned almost nightly to monitor the production. In the weeks leading up to opening night (Decemin Chicago), Williams had deep doubts about the production - the theater did not expect the play to last more than a few nights, and the producers prepared a closing notice in response to the weak advance sales. Compact Disc (January 26th, 2021): $19.The Glass Menagerie was written in 1944, based on reworked material from one of Williams' short stories, "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," and his screenplay, The Gentleman Caller.Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family.

She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself.

Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.Īmanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St.