The Glass Menagerie, a premiere in Tirana

TIRANA, Oct. 27 – Tennessee Williams’s Glass Menagerie, will be the new premiere at the National Theatre in Tirana. The drama by the American playwright is directed by Albania’s Lorin Terezi with Ervin Bejleri, Sonila Kapedani, Erjeta Cufaj starring.
The play will be staged at the small hall of the National Theatre on November 3 and 4 at 19.00
The Glass Menagerie is accounted by many to be an autobiographical play about Williams’s life, the characters and story mimicking his own, more closely than any of his other works.
The Glass Menagerie was originally produced in Chicago in 1944 and then staged in New York on Broadway in 1945. The text was also published in 1945. This play was the first of Williams’ to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, an honor he was given four times. The subjects and themes of the play are weighty and somewhat timeless: failures of the family structure, failures of fathers (perhaps even God), broken promises, individual failure and reconciliation. The Glass Menagerie is about the tough decisions people make for themselves that affect others and adversely themselves.