Wallace Community College - Polliceon Yearbook (Dothan, AL)

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ORE CALENDAR GIRLS MISS FEBRUARY MISS MARCH MISS JANUARY .IANA GOODWIN DEBBIE ROBERTS STACEY WILLIAMS i I-'

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AUTHOR'S PRODUCTION NOTES Being a memory play, THE GLASS MENAGERIE can be presented with unusual freedom of convention. Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material, atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part. Expressionism and all other unconventional techniques in drama have only one valid aim, and that is a closer approach to truth. When a play employs unconventional techniques, it is not, or certainly should not be, trying to escape its responsibility of dealing with reality, or interpreting experience, but is actually or should be attempting to find a closer ap- proach, a more penetrating and vivid expression of things as they are. The straight realistic play with its genuine frigidaire and authentic ice-cubes, it characters that speak exactly as its audience speaks, corresponds to the academic landscape and has the same virtue of a photographic likeness. Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in ap- pearance. These remarks are not meant as a preface only to this particular play. They have to do with a conception of a new, plastic theatre which must take the place of the exhausted theatre of realistic conventions if the theatre is to resume vitality as part of our cultures.

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