| The Pretty Trap re: NEW OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW - "KOWALSKI" | |
| Last Edit: Marlo*Manners 01:50 pm EST 01/28/25 | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 01:49 pm EST 01/28/25 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW - "KOWALSKI" - dbdbdb 10:27 pm EST 01/27/25 | |
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| Tennessee Williams evidently spent many years on the "Glass Menagerie" and it went through many drafts. One early version which has survived as a one-act play is "The Pretty Trap". He seems to have been working on the full three-act play but drafted this one-act since it may have been more easily produced? Anyway, it corresponds to the last act of "The Glass Menagerie" which back then was entitled "The Gentleman Caller". It has the "happy ending" where Laura goes off to dance at the neighboring dance hall with "Jim Delaney" (not O'Connor) who is not engaged and who reciprocates her affections. I saw a production back in 2011 with Katharine Houghton at the Acorn Theater produced by a company called Cause Célèbre and she was good, the production and supporting players were serviceable. Tom doesn't have much to do, as I remember. Laura seemed much less damaged than she was in the later full-length play (based on his sister Rose Isabel Williams who was later institutionalized). There was a lovely speech by Laura about her glass menagerie - she mentions that at a magic hour of the day around sunset the light comes through her window at a low angle illuminating the glass animals on her shelf. The light refracts through the glass and Laura says that the figurines act as prisms so that it is like being "inside of the rainbow" in her room. It is a beautiful and illuminating speech and I think should find its way back into the script of "The Glass Menagerie". Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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