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play until it has traveled "from page to stage." Most
even attack the commonplace script reading of Literature classes as
incomplete contact with the theatre. This production convinces me those
critics are on the right track
The Glass Menagerie reads like a tragedy, and the massive archive of scholarship which examines the script in a vacuum convincingly defines Williams' play as a showcase of sweet, but solemn, melancholy. Consequently, thousands of high school students have been misled into depression among its pages. However, when the lights go up and the actors speak, the Wingfields seem like predecessors of Mama's Family or Roseanne. The Greybeard Players invite you to smile through
Tom's famous monologues and Amanda's drawling rants; to chuckle through
the familiar tension between an adult world of adventure and a childhood
of safe comfort; to laugh at the stock-in-trade of stand-up
comics: the foibles and idiosyncrasies of our most eccentric
relatives. |
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