The Glass Menagerie

[low_delta]

Saw it for the first time tonight. One my least favorite plays!

The first act was a combination of dull and annoying. The mother is an annoying harpy. Her son is strong, and tries halfheartedly to fight it until he can leave, and the daughter is weak and can only take it.

The second half shows a gentleman caller interested in the shy and anxious daughter.

The ending is even bleaker than the rest of the play.

Comments

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

lol Yeah, I'm not fond of that play, either. Nor the film. I like some Tennessee Williams, but this one is just a tale of stupidity and frustration to me!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

What Williams do you like?

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

The film version of Sweet Bird of Youth. I wish I could have seen the play with Geraldine Page, and I'm happy she got the film role, as well, because that isn't always the case from stage to screen. Geraldine Page is my all-time favorite actress and, when I started working at NU, I met one of her sons, Jon, who is still a friend. You'd think I'd be thrilled, but I've never ever talked to him about his family! It seems rude and weird, esp. his mom, who is long dead, and his dad, who has... some problems that are public. And a cousin, Sissy Spacek. Although, one day, I was listening to The Lemonheads at work and Jon commented that he had just been to a party with Evan Dando and continued to tell me of their hijinks. *snort* OK, then.

The film Period of Adjustment was a fun one, actually, and I don't know when I realized it was written by Williams, as it's not his usual fare.

In fact, I like a lot of the screen versions of his plays-- Streetcar and Hot Tin Roof-- despite the southernness strangeness-- are still great movies, I think. And The Rose Tattoo is fantastic-- it might be my favorite Williams, actually. Night of the Iguana is good.

Something I didn't like is Baby Doll. Gross.
And Suddenly, Last Summer sucks. lol

I've also seen some of these plays onstage, but not any big productions.