Jim is engaged to another woman, and Tom decides to abandon his family. When Tom brings home his work colleague Jim to meet the fragile young woman, it proves disastrous. As Tom longs for escape, Amanda plots to find a husband for Laura. Tom toils in a factory job he loathes to support his aging Southern belle mother, Amanda, and his disabled, crushingly shy sister, Laura.Tennessee Williams’ breakout play offers a tragic glimpse of human desire and frailty.To this day, regular stage revivals are testament to the enduring power of this richly human family drama.
Despite the avant-garde nature of his expressionist dramatic techniques, they enhanced rather than detracted from the intensely real emotions his play portrayed. His bold experimentation ushered in a wildly popular style of American drama. In 1944, at a time when stodgy and predictable realism dominated Broadway, Williams created something new by combining the roles of character and narrator and using unusual dramatic conventions. Despite such familiar themes, this “memory play” shook the framework of American theater. In this brief dramatic masterpiece, Williams captures the tension between duty to those you love and the need to follow your dreams, complicated relationships between present and past, and feelings of isolation. A family that, despite their love for one another, fail to understand each other is the tragedy of Tennessee Williams’ breakthrough play.
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