“The Glass Menagerie” You tube Remake

For our You Tube video I will be portraying the character of Amanda in “The Glass Menagerie”. To create a good video, we believe that we need to add more humor than the book did. We believe that by doing this is it will also make it more modern. I will be acting as the “crazy mother”. Similar to the Amanda in the book, I will bask in my youth, and pray that my daughter lives a life like I did. I will be similar to a mom that you see in a show like “The Real Housewives of Orange County” or “Toddlers and Tiaras”. If one hasn’t seen these shows, you can expect a stereotypical blonde, bimbo, plastic mom, who makes her daughter dress nice, wear makeup, do her hair, and try and be popular. My character in our play will be like a “cougar”, still living in her youth and seeking younger men. We believe that by playing with the character of Amanda, making her like one would expect a rich lady from somewhere like Hollywood would act, it will create humor in the story. These kind of mothers are seen everywhere in movies, and by changing Amanda more into this stereotypical character, viewers will be able to relate and respond better to the story. She will respond to her son in the way that proves that he just doesn’t understand her and how perfect she was in her youth. He also doesn’t live up to her high expectations of what a man should be like, and this disappoints her. The “Amanda” that we are creating in our play will be very humorous and entertaining to watch, which furthermore will make a somewhat dull moment in the play more exciting.