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Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

A new, experimental The Glass Menagerie marks a bold turn for Australian theatre

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Mark Wilson’s novel version of Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie at the Melbourne Theatre Company doesn’t cooperate with historical readings of the play – but is exactly the kind of theatre we should be championing.

Wilson takes a much-loved classic that recollects family anxieties and subverts it, pushing into its dreamlike strangeness and nudging its audience to interrogate how memories are constructed.

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