The Glass Menagerie “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with, I turn bark time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them or they had failed […]

A wealthy middle-aged woman that abandoned her acting career because she became too old to play the parts she wanted to play begins an affair with a young gigolo while struggling with the loss of her beauty and the recent death of her husband. This is quintessential Tennessee Williams; for anyone familiar with his plays, the style and themes in this rare novel of his are instantly recognisable. He has a specific way of creating characters, especially ones that hide their true selves behind an […]