The Glass Menagerie

(Cambridge Arts Theatre, 17 April 2010)

The comfort of resignation is deceptive. The emotionally fragile but sane should not be housed together, in order not to aggravate their condition. The housing prescription must be observed most forcefully in families, where the shared melancholy disposition and the distrust for the outside world lead to the preservation of the streak that otherwise would have either killed or made its lonely bearer stronger---which is the risk worth taking.