The Glass Menagerie

The play introduces one of Tennessee Williams’ most legendary characters the formidable Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern Belle with delusions of grandeur. She’s stuck in a tiny, run-down apartment with her two adult children, the frustrated Tom and the cripplingly shy Laura. All three of them need to break free of the past. Could Laura’s ‘gentleman caller’ be their answer? This production subverts Williams’ own vision of The Glass Menagerie as a ‘memory play’. In real time onstage, recollections from the Wingfield apartment are converted into moments from a lost black-and-white film, as Tom re-imagines those he left behind.