Summary Read one-minute Sparklet summaries, the detailed scene-by-sceen Summary & Analysis, or the Full Play Summary of The Glass Menagerie. Education threatens to take Sarah’s daughter Rose away (a fine performance from Shauna Higgins), offering her opportunities that her mother cannot understand. The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams that was first performed in 1944.
Drugs, violence and gambling threaten the lives of Traveller men and impact the future of their wives and children, as evidenced by the fate of both Sarah’s husband and the lover she eventually takes on. Sex is only one danger that the world outside the halting site offers. The real conflict that Fielding and Joyce find in Williams’ play, however, is the conflict between generations. Fielding and Joyce add a demotic clarity to the dialogue, with an emphasis on earthy expression rather than lyrical beauty, bringing an immediacy to the soap-operatic scenario, whose preoccupation with sexual morality might seem remote from modern sensibilities. Williams’ work is known for its rarefied, heightened atmospheres, and for the limpid poetry and smooth cadence of his southern American voice. Vanessa Fielding and Catherine Joyce relocate the drama from southern Mississippi to a halting site in modern Ireland, where Sarah (Denise McCormack) has retreated into her mobile home after the sudden death of her husband. Tennessee Williams’ searing exploration of sexual mores is given a contemporary flavour in a new stage adaptation that seeks to place the traditions of Traveller culture centre stage.
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