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I haven't seen "The Glass Menagerie", but if it's like Tennessee Williams' other plays, it involves deeply damaged characters treating each other sadistically just for the Hell of it. Rather like watching someone tear the wings off of flies just to be entertained by their suffering.

Williams grew up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and later became an alcoholic himself. He wrote about dysfunctional relationships because that's what he knew. That doesn't make it worthy of the name of "art".

Williams wrote more than 70 plays (including collaborations). Most are forgotten. More should be.



PS: Yes I know it's April Fools' Day. But some of the recommended plays are far less appropriate for a high school class than anything Shakespeare ever wrote. (BTW, we read "Our Town" in high school. BOOOOOOring. And the idea of performing without a real set is just too pretentious for words.) You won't be surprised that I'm not a fan of theater, and wouldn't likely attend a live play even with free tickets.