The Glass Menagerie was published and performed in 1944. The sibling characters of Tom and Laura in the Glass Menagerie have been interpreted as a direct representation of Tennessee and Rose. As Rose had such a strong role in Tennessee’s life, she became a vital component in his writing. This made her inaccessible inwardly and Tennessee lost his only familiar companion. However, in 1943 she was diagnosed with schizophrenia which led to her lobotomy. Williams has described her to have been the salvation of his childhood. His only close relationship was with his sister Rose. Williams was born on Maand grew up in a considerably toxic family unit. Therefore, it is essential to have general knowledge of the playwright to extract the importance of the themes in the play. Thus, I will be exploring the following question: how can Tennessee Williams’ expressionist play, The Glass Menagerie, embed techniques of realism to the physical representation of Laura? Said play, is considered to be vaguely autobiographical to Tennessee Williams himself. The manner which she prepares the character is contrasting to the base of expressionism that the performance lies on. Furthermore, seeing how Keenan-Bolger uses realism techniques in her acting approach.
Exploring her personal interpretation, preparation and performance is crucial to allow myself to have general ideas of how Laura is seen on stage from a professional perspective. Additionally, I will be looking into Celia Keenan-Bolger’s performance of Laura in John Tiffany’s revival of the Glass Menagerie on Broadway in 2013.
In order to do this, I will be looking into the primary sources of, the Glass Menagerie, and Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski. I will undertake this by, going into the theories of expressionism and realism that are explicitly seen in the play, and explore how it affects character interpretation. For this qualitative essay I will use a practice based approach in order to explore the character of Laura, in Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie.
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