Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is an emotional gut punch from the master of American drama. Amanda is a former Southern belle who is well past her prime, sharing a tiny, dingy apartment with her two grown children. She longs to secure a better life for them, but her sensitive, poetic son has turned to drinking and her shy, crippled daughter has retreated to a fantasy world. Amanda's hopes are revived when her son brings a friend home for dinner, but the outsider sends unexpected shockwaves through the family. The fragile fantasy world they have built is irreparably cracked and they are forced to face their tragic reality.