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The Glass
Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams  Director Eamon Flack

  • Venue National tour
  • Dates 3 May – 5 June 2016

Winner of the 2015 Helpmann Award for Best Play and Best Female Actor (Pamela Rabe), our acclaimed production of The Glass Menagerie goes on tour to Canberra Theatre Centre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre and Melbourne’s Malthouse.

Tennessee Williams invented a new kind of theatre with The Glass Menagerie. It introduced the first in a line of legendary Williams women – towering dreamers fighting for their lives – and its formal inventiveness paved the way for the great American dream plays like Death of a Salesman and Angels in America. It is also a scathing self-portrait of the young Tennessee: homosexual, poet, liar, truth-teller.

Amanda Wingfield is a single mother. Her son Tom works in a warehouse, her daughter Laura is studying to become a secretary. The three of them live in a small apartment pent up with fantasies and urges and rage and wounded tenderness. It is not a magnificent existence, but each of them has one true idea for a better life. Enter the Gentleman Caller…

Eamon Flack directs Luke Mullins (Angels in America), the great Pamela Rabe, Harry Greenwood and Rose Riley in this stunning production.

Team

By Tennessee Williams
Director Eamon Flack
Set Designer Michael Hankin
Costume Designer Mel Page
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
Video Design Consultant Sean Bacon
American Dialect Coach Paige Walker-Carlton
Assistant Director Jada Alberts
Stage Manager Isabella Kerdijk
Assistant Stage Manager Katie Hankin

Cast

Harry Greenwood
Luke Mullins

Pamela Rabe
Rose Riley

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