Back/Inside Cover:No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwrit. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.
The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes."
"The revolutionary newness of The Glass Menagerie...was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically." -Arthur Miller
My Thoughts:
Well, to say it simply, I don't care for this play. Then again, I'm not a fan of reading plays, but, idk, the story line was a little too out there for me personally. Maybe it can relate better with other people, but as for me, I didn't connect with the characters very well and the story came across as very odd and annoying. I would hate if my mother was that controlling.
Reccommendations for...:
Idk, um, highschoolers. I think it'd be a little out there for middle schoolers to put together, but hey, if you're advanced, go for it!
Price, genre, publisher, info.:
US $10.95
CAN $13.50
Drama
New Directions
http://www.ndpublishing.com/
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