What: The Glass Menagerie in association with t2

Where: GD Birla Sabhagar

When: January 27, 6.30pm

Written by: Tennessee Williams

Directed by: Rajit Kapur

Produced by: Rage Productions

The players: Shernaz Patel, Ira Dubey, Ursula Pareira, Neil Bhoopalam

Language: English

The play: Based on Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, the memory play (one in which the narrative follows events from the memories of one of its characters) is set in the Depression era.

After her husband walks out of the marriage, Amanda is left alone with her children. She tries to move on and take care of her kids but cannot let go of her memories of a time more gracious and full of hope. It was a time when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers’.

The play is narrated by Tom, her son who is a poet with a job at the docks. Tom longs for adventure and wants to escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace. Laura, Tom’s shy and physically disabled sister, keeps to her world of glass menagerie.

Laura is Amanda’s biggest concern as she tries to find ways to get her a suitor. This search leads to one evening when James, one of Tom’s acquaintances, arrives at dinner. What follows is an evocation of loneliness and lost love.

Tickets: Priced Rs 1,500 to Rs 250, available on bookmyshow.com and also at the venue (11am to 6pm). For details, call 9830015510.

Book win

We received more than 50 letters to the question ‘Which cricketer in this XI should be the captain and why?’ (November 21). And we voted for the winning letter, written by Priyanka Modi. Congrats Priyanka! You will receive a copy of Rajdeep Sardesai’s Democracy’s XI from Story, the bookstore partner of Tata Steel Kalam.

The winner is...

My pick would be Dada. In the jungle that was cricket when he took charge of the Indian cricket team, India were the sheep — meek, well-behaved, easily overawed, supremely talented but unassertive. Sourav Ganguly brought swag and taught us to win. He transformed the ‘good boys’ of cricket into a badass team no one messed with. He brought us respect, recognition and attitude.

Priyanka Modi