BRADENTON — A cramped apartment, a family struggling to escape the past, and a Gentleman Caller who brings the one thing they all desperately crave—hope.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ classic play about dreams, deception, and our collective need for connection, will run through March 10 in the Bradenton Kiwanis Theater at the Manatee Performing Arts Center in downtown Bradenton.
The play, which propelled Williams from obscurity to fame, premiered in 1944 and has been seen as a timeless classic ever since. It includes autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.
Williams drew on a short story and screenplay he had previously written under the title of The Gentleman Caller. Rated PG, it will be directed by Lee Gundersheimer.
"The play is memory," says Gundersheimer. "Being a memory play it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic."
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