"The Pretty Trap": An Alternate Version of a Classic
Review by Judd Hollander Many plays go through multiple changes and versions before their final form, but seldom as much as with The Pretty Trap by Tennessee Williams, a one-act comedy/drama which would eventually become The Glass Menagerie, one of the classics of American Theatre. Yet The Pretty Trap is not an abbreviated version of the later story; rather it is an almost altogether different interpretation and told…