Discuss Williams’s decision to stage this play as “plastic
theatre” with a narrator, theme music, and surreal lighting techniques rather
than presenting it as realism. The unique nature of his choice comes through
even in the text of play. Choose a passage that provides evidence of this
choice. It must be a different passage than anyone else has chosen.
When Tom says, "... I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of trust. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion," on page four, it is the first sign that this play may not be as real as it seems. Tennessee Williams uses many different external techniques, the most obvious of which being the "plastic theatre" methods, to show the fantasy involved in memory. These methods gives the viewer a hazy impression of the play - telling them that all may not be as it seems.
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