I read the play “The Glass Menagerie” in my English class second semester freshman year. When discussing the play there were many aspects of the scenes and actors that weren’t clear in the author’s notes making it unclear how he would want it portrayed. It was interesting to see the route that Stevenson’s theater director took when portraying these scenes.
The live play took a less serious approach compared to how it may have felt when reading it. There was a lot of comedy in the different scenes, much of it coming from sarcastic remarks made by Mother and by Tom Wingfield. In my opinion, Laura was a lot less peculiar than she was made out to be when reading the play. Her crippled leg was a very slight limp, when the director could have made it extremely more noticeable. She was very shy which was consistent with how she was described in the play write. I enjoyed the approach that the director took with the play because to be truly honest I thought it was boring while reading it, but with the comedic approach It drew me in further.