A warehouse clerk turned merchant marine tries, unsuccessfully, to forget the mother and sister he abandoned. Tom Wingfield, a stand-in for Williams, tells the tale and is a character in this classic work that charms, haunts, and endures as “truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” The Glass Menagerie was written in 1945, at the dawn of Tennessee Williams’ career. The Festival’s 2024 production shares a new insight to The Glass Menagerie by staging it on the same set and with the same cast as Something Cloudy Something Clear, written in 1982 at the twilight of Williams’ life.