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Close Reads Podcast

The Glass Menagerie Q&A

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Join David, Tim, and Heidi for some more lively discussion as they conclude their conversation about Tennessee Williams' award-winning and much-beloved play, The Glass Menagerie. Topics of conversation include the glass unicorn, the value of tragedies, the challenges of reading a play (vs. seeing it performed), and much, much more. Plus, David explains some exciting new changes for the Close Reads brand - and the short story the show will cover next week.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Close Rees here on the Sersy Institute Podcast Network.

0:09.5

I am David Kern and I'm here with Tim McIntosh and Heidi White.

0:14.6

Angelina is, she's not joining us this week because she didn't join us for last week.

0:18.2

So it just makes, didn't make a lot of sense for her to come and answer questions about the book she hadn't read. So I'm here with Heidi and Tim,

0:25.2

and we are here to answer your questions about the glass menagerie, the glass menagerie. I can't

0:30.0

get out of my head. I can't decide which is right. But anyway, Heidi and Tim, how's it going?

0:34.9

Great. So great so great. Yes.

0:38.2

Should we spend this entire episode to develop a stand-up routine about doing laundry

0:43.0

and a house full of children or should we just skip that for now?

0:45.3

I think it would be really successful.

0:47.5

We could do it.

0:49.1

Tim could write a play about it.

0:50.5

Exactly.

0:51.0

It's a one-act play about doing laundry in your home.

0:53.1

Yeah. We were talking before

0:54.1

we started about the trials and tribulations of the pile of laundry that seems to be never-ending.

0:58.7

And all the moms who listen to this show are like, hey, I'm doing laundry while I'm listening.

1:03.8

It's true. The dishes in the laundry, they never end, right?

1:07.8

What I think would happen is the people who listen to this show would say oh finally someone

1:14.3

is addressing this painful monotonous subject in my life I'm so eager to see this one act

1:22.2

play and they would see and they'd say oh it's just as monotonous as it is in real. Right?

1:27.7

Yeah.

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