Originally published by The Movie Court.
The Movie Snob takes in a play.
The Glass Menagerie, Theatre Three. This was my first time to see this Tennessee Williams play, which I gather was his first big success. It was also my first trip to Dallas’s Theatre Three, a little theater in the Quadrangle area of Uptown. I enjoyed it. The play is a snapshot of just a few events in the life of the Wingfield family, as remembered years later by Tom Wingfield. During the Depression, Tom and his sister Laura are young adults living with their mother Amanda in a shabby apartment in St. Louis. Amanda’s husband fled the family long ago, and now Amanda reminisces continuously about her youth in the genteel South, when she had so many “gentleman callers” she could hardly keep track of them all. Laura is a basket case, so pathologically shy that she does nothing but take long walks, listen to her father’s old records, and gaze adoringly on her collection of tiny glass animals. Tom keeps the family afloat with a warehouse job that he hates, and he yearns to run away and be a poet. The performances were good, but I got the feeling that Amanda was supposed to be a bit of a monster, and instead she got more than a couple of laughs with her histrionic carrying-on. Allison Pistorius, whom I have seen in a couple of other local productions, was quite good as the fragile Laura. It runs through August 23, so check it out if you’ve never seen it before.
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