The Glass Menagerie
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 20, 2009
Closed Jun 7, 2009
Opened May 20, 2009
Closed Jun 7, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Laura, a timid girl living in a world of delicate cut glass animals, has her quiet life shattered when her mother, Amanda, encourages a meeting with a gentleman caller.
Stage and screen actress Judith Ivey stars in this seminal American play about one family's desperate need to hold onto their illusions.
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One of the most enduringly powerful plays in the American canon, Tennessee Williams' 1944 masterpiece The Glass Menagerie really doesn't need reimagining. However, Long Wharf Theatre artistic director Gordon Edelstein -- who evidently felt the urge to come up with a fresh interpretation -- has chosen to center the action not in "an alley in St. Louis" but in a New Orleans hotel room where the fledgling playwright is struggling to hammer out his script. (Few scenarios are more boring than watching a writer write.) Still, Williams' text emerges not just tamper-proof, but as transporting as ever, due in part to Judith Ivey's performance as a singularly robust Amanda Wingfield.
Instead of an e[...]