7/1/2023 0 Comments The glass menagerie full play![]() ![]() ![]() Williams’ intensely vulnerable characters are poignantly realised in this production, which stars one of Australia’s greatest actresses, Pamela Rabe, in her Helpmann Award-winning role. In real time onstage, recollections from the Wingfield apartment are converted into moments from a lost black-and-white film, as Tom re-imagines those he left behind. Straight from a sold-out season at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre, Eamon Flack’s new production subverts Williams’ own vision of The Glass Menagerie as a ‘memory play’. Could Laura’s ‘gentleman caller’ be their answer? All three of them need to break free of the past. She’s stuck in a tiny, run-down apartment with her two adult children, the frustrated Tom and the cripplingly shy Laura. The Glass Menagerie / introduces one of Tennessee Williams’ most legendary characters the formidable Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern Belle with delusions of grandeur. ![]()
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