A memory play - "truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion" - was about to come to light.

What began to emerge was an operatic memory play, with nearly the entire story told in song.

Once in a while you're lucky enough to read a book that compels you to ask questions: What part does memory play in grief?

Should anyone wamt tp forget about the American theater's first memory play, it won't be easy.

But his story is as much a memory play as Williams's.

"The Glass Menagerie," we are told at the outset, is a memory play.

It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator.

And since he grew up in Washington, near the hospital, it also becomes a memory play, which covers 45 years.

Structurally, the work borrows, in very conventional ways, from the old-fashioned memory play.

As its title suggests, "Souvenir" is a memory play.