Producer: Maria Filotti Theatre, Brăila

Cast: Monica Ivașcu, Ciprian Chiricheș, Blanca Doba, Sever Bârzan

Directed by: Andrei Huțuleac

Set Design: Maria Nicola

Sound & Video Design: Sever Bârzan

Lighting Design: Lucian Moga

Duration: 2h 20 min

Synopsis:

The Glass Menagerie is one of the most frequently staged plays by the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams. It is a story about a world that lives on the edge between reality and fantasy. An overbearing mother who tries to compensate for her own failures by projecting her ambitions and hopes onto her daughter. A son who seeks to escape a hostile environment through poetry and adventure. A sensitive daughter who longs for love. Reality eventually pierces their fragile world and alters their destiny.

“The play is a memory, and therefore it is nonrealistic. Memory allows itself many poetic liberties. It omits some details, exaggerates others, depending on the emotional value of the subject it touches, because memory lives primarily in the heart.” – Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is a playwright for whom memory is the driving force of his entire body of work. It all began with The Glass Menagerie, written in 1944. Deeply autobiographical, the play invites us back to 1930s America, during the Great Depression, and into the youth of Tom Lanier Williams (the playwright’s real name). A youth marked by rebellion, a yearning for self-discovery, love, freedom, and the desire to experience life in all its forms. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams is especially known to Romanian audiences through the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.