From the Portland Press Herald’s Maine Sunday Telegram

By STEVE FEENEY

The Wingfield family is making the rounds of local stages — last winter at Freeport Factory Stage and later this year at the University of Southern Maine. But the sad, noble folks made famous by Tennessee Williams in his “The Glass Menagerie” are currently paying a visit to the Theater at Monmouth.

It’s a fine production featuring a first-rate cast.

Believed to be largely autobiographical, William’s 1943 play sets the Wingfields, mother, Amanda, and her grown children, Tom and Laura, in Depression-era St. Louis. There, they scrape by on Tom’s meager earnings from a warehouse job and whatever Amanda can get from selling magazine subscriptions. The “crippled” Laura does little except listen to old records and tend to her collection of tiny glass animals.

Each family member longs for something more. “Everlasting regret” hangs heavily in the air of the run-down apartment.
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