The Glass Menagerie
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Join David, Tim, and Heidi (Angelina is away for work) for a lively discussion about Tennessee Williams' award-winning and much-beloved play, The Glass Menagerie. Topics of conversation include the differences (and unique challenges) between play writing and novel writing, who plays are written for, how to read plays, why this play has been so popular for so long, Williams' creative genius, and much, much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to close treats here on the Sorsi Institute podcast network. |
| 0:18.1 | I am David Kern and I am joined this week by the old staple Tim McIntosh and our new |
| 0:24.9 | partner in crime here on the show, Heidi White. Angelina Stanford, our normal partner in crime, |
| 0:30.1 | is in Montana doing some consulting work and because Montana is still the Old West, |
| 0:37.0 | I'm going to assume that's why there's not |
| 0:38.5 | Wi-Fi there. I assume she's living in a shanty in a camp where they're still building railroads |
| 0:43.7 | and she's doing literature training with the men who are doing the railroad grade. So that's my |
| 0:48.6 | image from it. So think like the Little House in the Prairie books where Laura's off in the wilderness |
| 0:52.7 | like the washing the guys make the railroad. That's what I assume angeline is doing right now so she couldn't be |
| 0:58.0 | with us for this show so Tim and Heidi and I will be holding down the fort as we talk about |
| 1:03.6 | Tennessee Williams play at the glass menagerie but first Tim, how's it going? |
| 1:12.7 | So good. |
| 1:13.8 | It's so great. |
| 1:14.6 | It's summertime. I got time to read. |
| 1:16.7 | Your husband's in Russia. |
| 1:18.3 | That's right. |
| 1:19.0 | The World Cup. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm holding down the fort. |
| 1:22.7 | Are your kids back from summer camp yet? |
| 1:24.6 | They are back from summer camp. |
| 1:26.8 | Yes. |
| 1:27.4 | So I'm going to be |
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