The Glass Menagerie Audiobook (Free)

Menagerie was Williams’ initial popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play continues to be the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, which is examined and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new intro by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play over fifty percent a century after it received the brand new York Episode Critics Circle Award: ‘Even more than fifty years after informing his story of a family whose lives type a triangle of noiseless desperation, Williams’s mellifluous tone of voice still resonates deeply and universally.’ This edition of The Glass Menagerie also contains Williams’ essay over the effect of sudden popularity on a attempting writer, ‘The Catastrophe of Success’, and a short portion of Williams’ personal ‘Production Records’.