For a short while, as Jim enters, there is a "delicate lemony light" (688), and a soft light from the new lamp brings out Laura's "unearthly prettiness" (695). Throughout the play the stage directions call for "a turgid smokey red glow," "gloomy gray" lighting and "deep blue dusk" which create the hazy images of a memory. That explains the fiddle in the wings" (699). In memory everything seems to happen to music. In his opening narration Tom says, "Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. Detailed stage directions intensify the unrealistic setting, foreshadow and emphasize events, and develop the characters.ĭim colored lighting and symbolic melodies create the unrealistic setting for the memory play. In Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, however, stage directions are essential to the understanding of the play.
The lighting, music, costumes, props and movement of the actors are not necessary for the development of the play's characters or theme. Some plays like Sophocles' Antigone do not require elaborate stage directions because the setting is not important to the play's structure.
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