what can be a modern day situation similar to the play the Glass Menagerie?

Question

in my literature class we have to act out modern day situations similar to the play's theme or a scene from the play.

Answer 1

I recently wrote a short (6 minute) script including Laura from "The Glass Menagerie" and Medea from the classic "Medea." The playscript is called "It's Just a Purse" and covers what happens when Medea returns Laura's purse right after it's just been stolen. It's mostly drama with a few comedic moments thrown in there. If that'd work for your project and you'd like a copy of it, feel free to email me and I'd be glad to get you one!

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Answer 2

Well, in the play you have a single mom who works selling magazine subscriptions, a son who is working to support the family in a factory (mid-twenties, you could have him be a high school drop out), and a daughter socially paralyzed by her leg braces. The son finds an outlet in the movies, which takes him out of the house. The daughter finds an outlet in her glass figurines, which keeps her in the house.

This seems rather modern to me. Small, shabby apartment, a single parent home, a working child... besides some lines about stuff specific to the 1940s, this seems a rather easy transition to me.

Perhaps you could do the scene where the mother confronts Laura that she knows she hasn't been going to her typing school, only change it to some pre-professional school (the technical schools and medical assistant schools you see advertised on TV).

Answer 3

It's an interesting assignment. It shouldn't be too difficult to imagine a situation in which a single parent is raising a child that has some sort of physical defect that MIGHT prevent the child from assimilating easily into the workforce. What sorts of anxieties might that parent experience, knowing that he/she will one day die and leave the child to its own devices? What lenghts might that parent go to in order to PROVIDE for that child?

Use your imagination; you'll come up with something.