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habitually isolate suchconstituents of drama as plot,character,setting,and theme,whereas in attending aplay we tend to become,as we say,\"involved.\"Williams'Production Notesemphasize not the constituents so much asthe unfolding performance in a theater,and his plentiful stage directions are areminder that what Aristotle called\"spectacle\"need not be regarded as themere addition of theatrical effects,butrather the encompassing and progressingaction upon the stage  \nIn this \"memory play\"Williams borrowsfrom the medium of cinema,especially fromsilent film,to present the interruptedcontinuity of Tom Wingfield's stream ofthought,which bears his story.The scenesare offered as \"flashbacks,\"punctuated bythe slightly nostalgic and self-mockingsubtitles.Tom holds in hand a movie script  \nand from time to time waves in a musicasound track providing bittersweetcommentary.He is successively author,narrator,director,and actor.All unreels ason the screen of his memories.Thecombination of the constituents of the playwith the mode of cinema creates the effectof discontinuous subjectivity which is theessence of this particular work.The theaterin which The Glass Menagerie is performedbecomes the theater of the mind.  \nThe Glass Menagerie  \nWILLIAMS  \n# The Author's Production Notes\n\nBeing a \"memory play,\"The Glass Menageriecan be presented with unusual freedom of con-vention.Because of its considerably delicateor tenuous material,atmospheric touches andsubtleties of direction play a particularly im-portant part.Expressionism and all otherunconventional techniques in dramahave onlyone valid aim,and that is a closer approach totruth.When a play employs unconventionaltechniques,it is not,or certainly shouldn't be,trying to escape its responsibility of dealingwith reality,or interpreting experience,but isactually or should be attempting to find acloser approach,a more penetrating and vividexpression of things as they are.The straightrealistic play with its genuine frigidaire andauthentic ice-cubes,its characters that speakexactly as its audience speaks,corresponds tothe academic landscape and has the same  \nThe Glass Menagerie,by Tennessee Williams Copy-right 1945 by Tennessee Williams and Edwina DWilliams and renewed 1973 by Tennessee WilliamReprinted by permission of Random House,IncCaution:Professionals and amateurs are herebywarned that The Glass Menagerie,being fully pro-tected under the copyright laws of the United Statesof America,the British Empire including the Dominionof Canada,and all other countries of the copyrighfunion,is subject to royalty All rights,including pro-fessional,amateur,motion picture.recitation.lecturing,public reading,radio broadcasting,and the rights oftranslation into foreign languages,are strictly reservedParticular emphasis is laid on the question of readings.permission for which must be secured from the author'sagent in writing All inquiries should be addressed tothe author's agent.Liebling-Wood,551 Fifth Avenue,New York City  \nvirtue of a photographic likeness Everyoneshould know nowadays the unimportance ofthe photographic in art:that truth,life,orreality is an organic thing which the poeticimagination can represent or suggest,in es-sence,only through transformation,throughchanging into other forms than those whichwere merely present in appearance  \nThese remarks are not meant as a prefaceonly to this particular play.They have to dowith a conception of a new,plastic theatrewhich must take the place of the exhaustedtheatre of realistic conventions if the theatreis to resume vitality as a part of our culture  \nTHE SCREEN DEVICE.There is only one im-portant difference between the original and actingversion of the play and that is the omission in thelatter of the device which I tentatively includedin my original script.This device was the use ofa screen on which were projected magic-lanternslides bearing images or titles.I do not re-gret the omission of 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