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If you see this show you’ll want to see it again – directed properly: The Glass Menagerie, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, reviewed

Plus: a new musical at Theatre Royal Stratford East that's theatrically near-flawless but pushes several Big Messages

The action takes place on a huge black platform flanked by 1930s antiques: Amy Adams and Tom Glynn-Carney in The Glass Menagerie. Photo: Johan Persson 
issue 02 July 2022
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  • The Glass Menagerie

    Duke of York’s Theatre, until 27 August

  • Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

    Theatre Royal Stratford East, until 17 July

The Glass Menagerie directed by Jeremy Herrin is a bit of an eyeball-scrambler. The action takes place on a huge black platform flanked by 1930s antiques: a typewriter, a broken piano, a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a smattering of Anglepoise lamps. This cryptic setting suggests that the play is being developed in a Museum of the Great Depression, and the show we are seeing is the latest rehearsal.

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