The Ivoryton Playhouse

The Glass Menagerie

May 7 - May 25
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jacqueline Hubbard

*Performance Times*
Wed, Thu evenings	7:30 PM
Fri, Sat evenings	8:00 PM
Wed, Sun Matinees	2:00 PM

One of the most famous plays of the modern theatre. A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty. "His words are a very fantastical banquet. " Shakespeare's line from Much Ado About Nothing sums up the enduring appeal of Tennessee Williams 1944 The Glass Menagerie. The narrator and key player's opening monologue is just a foretaste to a "fantastical banquet" of richly lyrical language.

The Glass Menagerie may be more than fifty years old and set in a bygone world, but its story of people too fragile to deal with the cruel realities of their lives is timeless. Southern belles and gentleman callers have become cultural allusions, but the struggles of single parenthood are all around us, along with relationships capsized because parents try to set their own disappointments to rights through their children.

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Photo: Peter Lockyer as Tom, and Julia Kiley as Amanda