The Glass Menagerie
From: Thursday, 11th November 2010
To: Saturday, 15 January 2011
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Synopsis
Amanda Wingfield was once courted by seventeen gentleman callers in on afternoon. Now she yearns for the days when her daughter Laura will captivate the world. But Laura lives out her own dreams with her cherished collection of glass animals - until the man she has loved from afar arrives at the apartment. The Glass Menagerie is a poignant and intensely moving exploration of a fragile fantasy world - a world that might easily be shattered.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 18 November 2010
Bring on those “gay deceivers,” or false boobies, that Amanda Wingfield shoves down her daughter Laura’s dress to enhance her appeal to the imminent Gentleman Caller. How you look will make all the difference, even if you do hobble with a limp, stutter with a lisp and play imaginary games with a menagerie of glass animals.
My, how those cruel Southern manners hit home in this fine revival of Tennessee Williams’ first big success, his rite of passage drama from the shoe factory job in St Louis to the bright lights of writing success. And it’s a great strength of Joe Hill-Gibbins’ exciting production that the casting is slightly off kilter, and inauthentic, too.
The play seems doubly fresh in Deborah Findlay’s steelier-than-usual Amanda, drooping with false finesse and overstretched gentility, while poor Laura is given a brilliant new definition in Sinéad Matthews’ bundle of nervous tics and thwarted flicker of ...
Latest User Review
rds - 30 December 2010:
Much of what Gareth James has said I agree with, but I would also add that I hated the dismal staging (or more to the point - what staging?). A silly raised section was a constant distraction making Amanda (Deborah Finlay) appear to limp as much as her crippled daughter. I like Deborah Findlay, but she was totally miscast and misdirected in this production. The character of the mother is as tragic as the daughter's but this did not come across from the very robust Ms Findlay - I almost expected her to go into Rose's Turn at one point!! I have seen my fair share of TW's plays over the years and think I am able to give an opinion on how they should be played. To me the finest production I have seen of this play was at The Shaw Festival, Canada, in 2006 when Seanna McKenna, as Amanda, and Sarah Topham, as Laura, gave the most convincing and heart breaking performances I have ever seen. After seeing, recently, a pathetic A Flea In Her Ear at the Old Vic and now this, all 4 stars according to Mr Coveney, I am beginning to wonder if it isn't about time he haug up his pencil? :) ...
Cast
Deborah Findlay (Amanda Wingfield)
Sinead Matthews
Leo Bill
Kyle Soller
Creative
Tennessee Williams (Author)
Young Vic (Producer)
Joe Hill-Gibbins (Director)
Jeremy Herbert (Design)
Laura Hopkins (Costume)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Dario Marianelli (Music)
Arthur Pita (Choreographer)
Mike Walker (Sound)
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