The Glass Menagerie

On Sale 07 November 2011

By Tennessee Williams

Set in St. Louis in the 1930’s, The Glass Menagerie is a “memory play” about the Wingfield family: Tom, who is torn between his obligation to his family and his desire to break away from the suffocating embrace of his mother Amanda and his shy and crippled sister Laura, whose memory he will never escape.

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in the American Deep South, when she was pursued by ‘gentlemen callers’. Now she fights to provide a better life for her grown children, while they struggle for a future that seems unlikely ever to fulfill their mother’s hopes and dreams. But a change in fortune suddenly seems possible with the arrival of a handsome and mysterious young visitor who arrives without warning. <em>The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee William's evocation of loneliness and lost love, is one of his most powerful and moving plays; an unforgettable American classic.

Director: Adam Cook
Lighting Designer: Mark Pennington
Cast Includes: Kate Cheel, Nic English, Anthony Gooley, Deidre Rubenstein

Access Performance:

Tuesday 15 May 6.30pm
Vision Impaired / Audio Described (with pre-show discussion from 5.30pm)

Saturday 26 May 2.00pm
Vision Impaired / Audio Described

Wednesday 23 May 11.00am
Captioned