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Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (Paperback, 1999, New Directions) 4 stars

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and …

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3 stars

This felt like a case of, "it's not you, it's me." I don't typically read plays and I'm not big on stage dramas in general, so maybe I was never the target audience for it, but it was a different experience than I'm used to.

There's a serviceable story in here that personally felt dated to me, and unfortunately I feel it's brevity worked against it; while this cast of four characters is impressively fleshed out for the short amount of time we spend with them, I don't know that I'm going to retain much of this plot when asked to recap it a year from now. Maybe I just had to be there when it first came out.