Decía Virginie Despentes en su impresionante Vernon Subutex que “Somos inquilinos de las situaciones, nunca propietarios”, y todos sabemos lo difícil que puede ser hacer frente a las condiciones que se nos impone en el contrato de alquiler. Este es el caso de los personajes de El zoo de cristal, personas que se sobreponen a la poca fortuna que les ha reservado el destino haciendo lo que pueden. El drama es que lo que pueden queda lejos de ser suficiente o incluso aceptable por ellos mismos. Aman...

هاهاها!
میدونین یاد چی افتادم؟ یاد وقتی که پسرا میخوان یه دخترو بپیچونن ولی بی احترامی ام نکرده باشن، میگن ببین فلانی! تو خیلی فوق العاده ایا ولی من لیاقتتو ندارم. :)))
...
از گروه همخوانی و میون چتهای غزاله و سعید تقلب کردم و اول فیلم اقتباسی "اینجا بدون من" رو دیدم و بعدم نمایشنامه رو خوندم.
خب! فکر میکنم فیلم تاثیر بیشتری روم گذاشت و بیشتر دوسش دارم.

Many of us know the story set in a dingy tenement: a mother and her adult son and daughter. If the phrase ‘lives of quiet desperation' has any meaning, it’s here in this stage play. The fragility of daughter Laura is symbolized by the tiny glass animals she collects and her life of dusting them and playing old records. She’s so unable to handle stress that she vomits during exams and has to withdraw from secretarial school. Son Tom is a frustrated writer and poet who hates his job in a shoe ware...

عاشق زنبورها هستم اما من انسانم نه زنبورروز به روز بیشتر داریم شبیه زنبورها میشیم...کار! کار! کار!...پشت سرهم...و آنقدر تکرار پشتِ تکرار که همه شبیه هم شدیم...از بچگی تو اون گوش‌های بزرگت به اندازه کافی فرو کرده‌اند...اگه می‌خوای خوشبخت شی کار کن!!! مگو چیست کار!!! سعدیا خودت که ول میگشتی...وسط مجلس این نصیحتت چی بود!؟...حالا کار کن چپ و راست...شب و روز...آن هم برای قدرتمندانی که روز به روز بیشتر طبیعت و زمین را نابود می‌کنند...همه باهم یالا...تیشه‌ها را بلند کنید...محکم‌تر...می‌خواهیم خوشبخت‌تا...

Oh Laura. Poor damaged Laura. If there has ever been a more sensitive and poignant portrayal of mental illness than Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, I have yet to come across it. Laura breaks my heart. It is impossible not to love her and want to shelter her from the world.She is a unicorn among horses. A blue rose among the weeds. A shattered rainbow.Twice in the text Williams refers to her “fragile, unearthly prettiness” (51, 67). The stage light that shines upon her has “a peculiar pri...

Perhaps this talks to me more about my life than other Williams masterpieces do. I don't know, but reading through the whole "gentleman caller" preparations made my very soul shiver. The author has split his personality, and you have Amanda, Laura, Tom and Jim somehow unifying to reflect themselves both the unit and the broken pieces, the ashes of glass that are the reader --at least in my case.A thing of beauty in Williams' hands will always bleed straight from the heart. His symbols, states of...

Over the course of the last month I have read the classic plays of Tennessee Williams. Williams' first successful play, The Glass Menagerie initially opened in Chicago in the spring of 1944 and then moved to New York three months later. What he dubs a memory play, The Glass Menagerie focuses on a family much like Williams' own family, and hones in on the human emotions that allow a family to function. Containing seven scenes all in one location and four characters, The Glass Menagerie is powerfu...

*Reread for class 2017
Still a great play. I originally read this 5 or 6 years ago for my high school English class and it is so interesting now getting a new perspective in a university class.

Updated review: I just listened to a 1997 audio production of this masterpiece produced by LA Theater Works, featuring an amazing, award-winning cast including Calista Flockhart as Laura, Julie Harris as Amanda, her mother, and Chicagoan John Goodman as the narrator. Wonderful performance. This time, given all the disabilities in my immediate family, seeing how precarious things are for Laura, with the effects of Pleurisy, her limp, her social anxiety and all that entails, it felt more personal ...

The Glass Menagerie is a great domestic tragedy with three very distinctive characters--the strong, proud Amanda, the weak and innocent Laura, and the realistic dreamer, Tom. One finds in this play an elegiac portrait of misery, rather than a scalding enactment of taboo. There is no one tragic event here, but a general condition of pathos. Instead of a classic conflict, The Glass Managerie depicts a lack of cooperation. We find in the Wingfield home no crime, but a chronic, aching social and eco...