by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Ukaria Cultural Centre, 119 Williams Road, Mt Barker Summit
Sunday August 6 @ 2.00
$30/ticket
Abandoned by her charming, but feckless husband, faded Southern belle, Amanda Wingfield, lives in a dreary tenement apartment in St Louis, during the Great Depression. She comforts herself with romanticised memories of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain, when she was pursued by hordes of gentleman callers.
Her son, Tom - a budding poet, with a job in a shoe warehouse - longs for adventure and escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace, while her shy, crippled daughter, Laura, retreats into her own world, caring for her “menagerie” of little glass animals.
Amanda is desperate for Tom to find his sister a husband, but, when the long-awaited gentleman caller finally does arrive . . .
Tennessee Williams’ poignant, semi-autobiographical “The Glass Menagerie” was his first major success, launching the brilliant and controversial career of this ground-breaking American playwright. Rob Croser has directed the play twice before founding Independent Theatre, and Pam O’Grady has played Amanda Wingfield twice before - but never with each other. They are delighted to be working together on this much-loved play, and to be joined by Independent Theatre favourites Will Cox, Eloise Quinn-Valentine and Eddie Sims.
Directed by
ROB CROSER