The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

4th - 11th September 2010

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A drama

The Glass Menagerie, Tenessee Williams’ evocation of loneliness and lost love, is one of his most powerful and moving plays.

In a St. Louis slum apartment lives Amanda Wingfield who clings frantically to another time and place when she was a southern belle with a myriad of gentleman callers. Abandoned by her husband, she comforts herself with recollections of a more gracious life.

With her lives, her son Tom, and crippled daughter Laura. Tom is a poet with a dead end job in a warehouse. Whilst longing for adventure and escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace, he spends most of his spare time, losing himself at the movies.

Laura’s separation from reality increases until she is like one of her glass collection, too fragile to move from the shelf.

Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura’s romantic illusions are shattered.

Directed by Helen Hamilton