In Media Res: Onstage and in the Heart of the Matter
The creative staging of this classic enabled me to experience the play in a way I hadn't before: in the past I always felt sorry for Laura, sympathy for Tom, and dislike for Amanda, but this time I was sympathetic for all three, each of them crippled by some forces external and some internal. Williams's "memory play" is both tragic and ironic and this production is extremely moving.