That company comes in the second act when mom’s goal of finding a suitable suitor for her very unsuitable daughter gets down to business. Enough, enough ma!Īmanda fills the air with her endless talk, she’s a non-stop chatterbox and she gets much worse the minute there is company in the house. His meddlesome mom always has something to say, either about his posture, the hazards of chugging his drinks, or any number of folksy, annoying nostrums, that just keep coming. Abigail Milnor-Sweetser and Robbie Simpson in The Glass Menagerie.

He isn’t afraid to push back on his busybody mom, he’s only making $64 a week at a factory job. Tom, (Robbie Simpson) whose character is also the narrator from up high who opens the show, is the brother of Laura, (Abigail Milnor-Sweetser) who keeps leaving the house to go to the movies. Damon plays the main character with a spot-on Carolina accent and rapid-fire delivery, she’s about to get very annoying you can tell. She regrets that and thus, is determined to get her disabled daughter Laura married off to someone better.

We have a cast full of people with issues…starting with Amanda, (Cate Damon) who married a complete cad whose grinning visage is seen on a portrait that stares out at us on stage. Gentleman callers? Going out to Movie Theaters? What year is this?īut the personal tribulations and the tension between the characters are the glue that holds this production together. The plot is indeed a familiar one, that Tennessee Williams based on his own dysfunctional family dynamic, and it’s a memory play…but most of the memories are sad ones.ĭirector Rand Foerster’s production of the 1944 play at the Majestic Theater is powered by the emotions of the script, the actors wring every bit of poignancy that they can and are only limited by some of the dated cultural aspects of the play. I can’t recall when I first read it or saw it last, but when Amanda Wingfield made the painful discovery about her daughter Laura’s attendance record at the business college, I knew just what she was about to report.

The Glass Menagerie is an iconic work, one that many of us are familiar with. The Glass Menagerie Brings Sad People Together for a While

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