Comments were heard at the intermission that the production was too humorous.
Once a staple of theater companies, the play is rarely seen today but it remains a compelling piece in ATC’s Associate Artistic Director Chanel Bragg’s gripping staging that captures the play’s every emotional nuance. The final character is the brief appearance of Laura’s Gentleman Caller, Jim, a fellow worker of Tom, who, in reawakening Laura’s hope, reveals a dire encumbrance. Daughter Laura has allowed a minor impediment to destroy her ability to function. But Tom wants to escape into a make-believe world patterned after his long absent father. Son Tom, the most realistic family member and the play’s narrator, uses his detested warehouse job to sustain the family. Family matriarch and former Southern Belle Amanda lives in a shadowy world where everything she remembers is either perfect or can be justified. No one takes responsibility for their individual predicaments.
We meet the insular three-person family who are each delusional about themselves as they live with past memories that fuel their currently debauched lives. Arizona Theatre Company’s stunningly moving production brings back this amazing classic with remarkable panache.
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Louis circa 1930, is a triumphant memory play with richly defined and strongly developed characters plus an emotionally compelling story. The 1945 masterpiece about the dysfunctional Wingfield family of St. “The Glass Menagerie” was Tennessee Williams first and perhaps the best play of his distinguished contributions to the American theater canon. WILLIAMS’ BEST PLAY “THE GLASS MENAGERIE” SOARS IN WINNING ATC STAGINGĪrizona Theatre Company, Center Stage, Herberger Theater Center
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