Revival of Williams’s classic eventually hits a Glass ceiling

The Glass Menagerie

Gate Theatre, Dublin

Rating: ***

Runs until June 1

Tennessee Williams’s first major play mined his own experiences for drama. In the opening lines of The Glass Menagerie, the play’s narrator and author-figure, Tom, reveals the boldness of this memory-infused agenda.

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket,” he says, “I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that ...