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The glass menagerie play script5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The current staging of The Glass Menagerie by the African-American Shakespeare Company is a powerfully different take on Tennessee William’s memories, with a cast whose skins are varying shades of brown and whose heritages are a mixture of African-American, Filipino, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous. But in all productions that I have personally seen from London to New York to San Francisco, the common element is that the casts have been all-white. Louis, middle-class setting have time and again been recreated on the stages on and off Broadway, in theatrical centers worldwide, and in thousands of towns where many of high-school-aged actors have cut their acting eye-teeth on the four, now iconic roles created by Williams. ![]() In the decades since, many revivals of the 1930’s, St. In 1944, Tennessee Williams skyrocketed from near obscurity to wide-spread fame with the premiere of The Glass Menagerie, a play touted as a memory play both in the script and in its evident connections to the playwright and his family of an excessively attention-seeking mother, a mentally and physically fragile sister, and a long-absent father. ![]() The African-American Shakespeare Company Mars Holscher ![]()
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