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GLASS HOUSES.(Glass Menagerie)(Theater Review)

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"It seems like yesterday"--a lovely phrase that may occur to you more than once if you're fortunate enough to catch David Leveaux's brilliant staging of Tennessee Williams's "Glass Menagerie" (at the Barrymore). It is hardly surprising that the experience of watching Williams's delicate "memory play," as he called the 1944 masterwork that was his first success in the theatre, should evoke images from one's own past. For generations of readers, especially those who discovered Williams as teen-agers, the playwright has been the first to decode the dynamics of the family and, most important, of the relationship that more or less defines all boys--the connection between a ...

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