THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by Tennessee Williams
"The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. - In memory everything seems to happen to music... I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it. The other characters are my mother, Amanda, my sister, Laura, and a gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes..."
From the steps of a dingy fire escape in St. Louis, Tom Wingfield looks back into his own past, remembering the mother and sister he left behind. He remembers his mother, Amanda, desperate to claw out a future for Tom, herself, and the devastatingly shy Laura, convincing him to bring home a "gentleman caller" from his hated job at the shoe-factory. Anything to break Laura away from her world of little glass animals. As the gentleman caller arrives, the cracks in their fragile existence begin to widen then shatter as the outside world invades their tense but loving existence.
From the steps of a dingy fire escape in St. Louis, Tom Wingfield looks back into his own past, remembering the mother and sister he left behind. He remembers his mother, Amanda, desperate to claw out a future for Tom, herself, and the devastatingly shy Laura, convincing him to bring home a "gentleman caller" from his hated job at the shoe-factory. Anything to break Laura away from her world of little glass animals. As the gentleman caller arrives, the cracks in their fragile existence begin to widen then shatter as the outside world invades their tense but loving existence.
CAST
Nyree Martinez as AMANDA
Niclas Olson as TOM
Alexandria Melville as LAURA
Travis Tingvall as JIM
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Set and Lighting by Niclas Olson
Costumes by Robin Matthias
Sound by Bethany Bevier
in partnership with Green Theatre Now
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Erinne Kellogg
DIRECTED
by Niclas Olson
THE GLASS MENAGERIE is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. on behalf of The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
Nyree Martinez as AMANDA
Niclas Olson as TOM
Alexandria Melville as LAURA
Travis Tingvall as JIM
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Set and Lighting by Niclas Olson
Costumes by Robin Matthias
Sound by Bethany Bevier
in partnership with Green Theatre Now
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Erinne Kellogg
DIRECTED
by Niclas Olson
THE GLASS MENAGERIE is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. on behalf of The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
a New Muses Theatre Company production at the Dukesbay Theater (508 6th Ave | Tacoma)
