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Tennessee Williams’s haunting masterpiece The Glass Menagerie is staging a rare, revelatory revival in Canberra, directed by Dr. Geoffrey Borny — a leading Williams scholar who argues the play is far more absurdist and symbolic than commonly believed. Using Williams’s preferred “reading edition,” this production strips away naturalistic constraints to reveal a “plastic theatre” where light, projection, and metaphor transform reality into emotional truth. Borny contends this version, closer to Williams’s original vision, offers a powerful defense of romanticism against the crushing weight of reality — a poignant meditation on how we build fragile illusions to survive.

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