1. Glass Menagerie
... middle class St. Louis tenement. There is a fire escape with a landing that serves as a porch. "The scene is memory," indicate the stage directions, and, as such, the interior is "rather dim and poetic." There is a screen-like surface on which words or images periodically appear. Tom steps ... opaque behind him; it becomes translucent as his monologue concludes, revealing the dining room. Tom's narration is, (again, according to the stage directions themselves), "an undisguised convention of the play...[h]e takes whatever license with dramatic convention is convenient to his purposes." To...
- Word Count: 5517
- Approx Pages: 22
- Grade Level: High School