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Informationen zum Autor Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Other plays include The Glass Menagerie , Summer and Smoke , The Rose Tattoo , Camino Real , Suddenly Last Summer , Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana . He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason . He died in 1983 at the age of 72. Klappentext Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie . In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura—lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom—sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. Also included on this audio are priceless recordings of Tennessee Williams bringing his own interpretations to the wistful opening monologue and the tragic ending, as well as to his own brilliantly charming poetry and his uproariously wicked short story, The Yellow Bird . Zusammenfassung The Glass Menagerie , first produced in 1944, is one of Tennessee Williams' earliest and best plays. Amanda is a mother who is victim of fantasies about her withdrawn daughter, Laura. Laura wears a leg-brace because of a crippling illness and is hypersensitive about it. She is at home only in her private world that centers on a collection of glass animal figures. When Amanda persuades her son, Tom, to invite a friend from work for dinner with hopes that it will lead to romance for Laura, it changes the family forever. This classic play is beautifully brought to life by its all-star cast. "Delicate . . . moving . . . lovely . . . perfect . . . Tennessee Williams has never improved on this play." - The New York Times ...
