The director from St. Petersburg put in the Tambov drama "Glass Menagerie"

TAMBOV. On March 12, the city drama theater presented the audience with a performance staged by the St. Petersburg director Ignatius Kirillov, “The Glass Menagerie”. The play, written by playwright Williams Tennessee, was his first work, which received worldwide fame.

In The Glass Menagerie, as well as in the subsequent works of the playwright, the theme of the doom of people whose present is tied to the past is raised. However, in subsequent plays, events take place against the backdrop of conflicts related to violence, and the Glass Menagerie can be called an elegy play, which combines irony with poetic intonations.

Tennessee tells in the play the simple story of a family that no longer has the strength to continue to exist in the world of illusions that have become a reality for the family. The prototypes of the heroes of the play were the playwright’s own family, where the relations between relatives, like the characters described by Tennessee, were not easy.

The play was first seen by Chicago audiences in 1944, and then it appeared in the repertoire of Broadway theaters. After the premiere on Broadway, where the role of Amanda was played by Elizabeth Taylor, the play gained many fans. The “Glass Menagerie” was named the best play of the season, the beginning playwright became famous. Thus began the story of the play, which now continues successfully on the stages of theaters.

Now the “Glass Menagerie” has appeared in the repertoire of the Tambov Drama Theater. Since the plot of the play-memoirs allows the director to freely improvise, Ignatius Kirillov presented to the public a poetic memory of the past, scenes from which the main character of the play lives. On stage is the world of metaphors where Tom travels, for whom the inability to escape from the past has become a tragedy.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru