PORTRAIT OF A GIRL IN GLASS
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Portrait of a girl in glass
2020
Together Tom, Amanda, and Laura Wingfield create one of the most memorable plays of the American theatre.
Tennessee Williams based The Glass Menagerie on "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," a short story he wrote in 1943. The fragile pathos of Laura Wingfield's life was Williams' original inspiration in his short story. In "Portrait of a Girl in Glass" the narrator feels compassion for Laura, who "made no positive motion toward the world but stood at the edge of the water, so to speak, with feet that anticipated too much cold to move." In this early story we can already recognize Williams' other trademarks: the theme of Tom's flight from "a dead but beautiful past into a live but ugly and meaningless present", the images of leaves torn from their branches, the hundreds of little transparent pieces of glass, the tired old music of the dead past, and the emotional undercurrent of sexual passion roaring through the entire story.
Portrait of a girl in glass is a memory play and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield. As narrator, Tom sets the scene and is the presenter of illusions that hold the truth. Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis. He is an aspiring poet who toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. Amanda insists that Tom bring home a "gentlemen caller" for Laura, whose lack of social confidence contrasts sharply with Amanda's fantasies.
The plays deals with the isolation that people feel when they cannot connect to each other or the world at large.
Digital theater
Length: 60 min.
Aimed at people from the age of 16
Credits
Story written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Yoali Daniela Serrano
Movement tutor: César René Pérez
Accent tutors: Florrie Grigson and Haydeé Leyva
Yoga tutor: Adrián Alarcón
Cast
Alejandro Briones
Lorena Paniagua
Daniela Becerril
Ulises Godínez
Renata Guerra
Production design: Renata Guerra, Alejandro Briones, Daniela Becerril, Lorena Paniagua and Ulises Godínez
Graphic design: Renata Guerra, Yoali Daniela Serrano and Alejandro Briones
Produced by Caudal Producciones A.C.
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