The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams’ great American classic is filled with tenderness, charm and beauty. Climb the fire escape to a tenement apartment in St. Louis during the Depression, where Tom – a poet and a dreamer is working in a warehouse – tells his version of the family’s story, what he calls “truth in a pleasant disguise of illusion.” His mother Amanda, overcome by recollections of her youth as a Southern belle, projects impossible standards on her shy daughter Laura. Crippled in body and spirit, Laura fixes her devotion upon a world of fragile glass animals. Enter the gentleman caller, the embodiment of the real world beyond the Wingfield family’s chosen exile.