THE GLASS MENAGERIE By: Tennessee Williams Trapped within the confines of a St. Louis apartment building and the Great Depression, the Wingfield family dreams of escape: budding poet Tom envisions a future on the open seas, his sister Laura retreats from the resent into a fantasy world of glass animals, and matriarch Amanda waltzes through her past with seventeen gentlemen callers from the Mississippi delta of her youth. The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns to everlasting regret in Williams' transluscent memory play that has become an enduring American classic. For Tennessee Williams' characters, escape is clearly defined by the glow of the "memory play." This is so because everyone of them transposes their difficult situations into shadows of the truth. Laura, our fragile daughter-figure, finds herself escaping life....

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