Being a Memory Play, 'The Glass Menagerie' Can be Presented With Unusual Freedom of Convention. How Does Williams Use Unconventional Structure and Staging To Explore His Themes?

Williams uses the unconventional structures that can be applied to his memory play 'The Glass Menagerie' to great effect. Him allowing the actors to simulate actions like eating helps the audience recognise that the play is not realistic and maybe somewhat changed in Tom's mind. The play itself is split up into a few small scenes which are all set around the same area. The scenes of the play are actually almost episodes of a …

…a controlled manner that makes the play easier to understand and will give a deeper, longer-lasting, emotional link with the play and the actors when on stage. All in all I think that the devices, for example the lighting and music have worked and many are used in current productions, for example the lighting and music have all been used by other top end producers, directors and writers and created a change in the theatrical