Synopsis
The Glass Menagerie
$12.99 Published by Penguin
2 Male 2 Female
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'
Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories
Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions are crushed
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' evocation of loneliness and lost love, is one of his most powerful and moving plays