The Glass Menagerie

A glass unicorn of exquisite beauty – a small family just as fragile. Will both be shattered? In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield longs to escape his dead-end job and the stifling home life he endures with his overbearing and self-deluding mother. First, though, he tries to make provision for Laura, his withdrawn and emotionally fragile sister — only to find that dreams of the heart, once awakened, are all too easily shattered.