The Glass Menagerie Press Reviews

Vermont Stage Company has opened their season with a lovely production of Tennessee Williams' delicate memory play, THE GLASS MENAGERIE.  A semi-autobiographical account of the playwright's early years, the play tells the story of Tom, who is also the narrator, Amanda, his sometimes domineering mother and Laura, his damaged sister.  To quote Director Mark Nash, ". . . it's about members of a family trying to connect with one another.  They often fail miserably . . .[but] they are each motivated by love."

The set designed by Jenny Fulton is remarkably spacious for the FlynnSpace....(Read the Full Review Here)

A character in the 1959 film Suddenly, Last Summer, written by Tennessee Williams, says, "A poet's life is his work." If the author penned these words in sincerity, they may explain why family politics became such a dominant theme in his plays for stage and screen. As he revealed in his semiautobiographical play The Glass Menagerie, Williams was steeped in family drama when he leaped into the life of letters. In the Vermont Stage Company production of the play currently running at FlynnSpace, we're treated to a dramatic portrait of the artist as a young man poised on that very precipice....(Read the Full Review Here)

If your only exposure to "The Glass Menagerie" came from reading it in high school - probably when you were too young to understand what it's saying about mankind's perpetual state of fragility - it's worth a trip to FlynnSpace to see Vermont Stage perform the classic Tennessee Williams play in the flesh.  The four actors who took Williams' words and ran confidently with them on the Burlington theater company's 2010-11 opening night Oct. 6 demonstrated that Williams' work about a Southern family bound and divided by love has lost none of its power since he wrote the play 65 years ago....(Read the Full Review Here)