6/10/2023 0 Comments Amy adams in the glass menagerieThe Glass Menagerie is Laura’s collection of glass animals she has collected while secluded from the outside world, they represent her family, hopes and dreams and have pride of place, possibly a little too much attention-stealing in its vast glass cabinet. It’s a beautifully created production, and there is no need for meta theatre to be enforced on the play, Williams gives us that in his superb opening monologue, embracing the fact that this is a memory play, the actors greeting each other on stage before the show begins. Whilst the tale of faded Southern Belle Amanda, trying desperately to fix her daughter, Laura, up with a gentleman caller lacks the melodrama and histrionics of later plays, there is power in its gentleness. Tennessee Williams’s first hit is given an inventive new production directed by Jeremy Herrin that gently finds new layers due to some inventive casting. Paul T Davies reviews Tennessee Williams’s memory play The Glass Menagerie starring Amy Adams at the Duke Of York’s Theatre London.
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