The Glass Menagerie Opens July 10th
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Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who
lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son Tom and
daughter Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her
life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective
and irritating.
Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and
seeks escape in alcohol and the unrealistic world of the movies.
Laura also lives in her own illusions. She is crippled, and this
defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has
driven her more and more into herself.
The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his
acquaintance to take dinner with the family. Jim is a nice ordinary
fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for
Laura.
In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap Jim, he and Laura
manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of
herself into a new world. But, this world crashes when, toward the end,
Jim explains that he is already engaged.
The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in
order to make life bearable collapses about them. Tom, too, at the end
of his tether, at last leaves home.
CAST
Amanda-Timi Jordison
Laura-Jordan Adams
Tom-Will Schnurr
Jim-Evan Diehl
Directed by Terry Coleman
Produced by Hawkeye Community Theatre Corporation under authority of
Samuel French Inc., NY, NY, USA
Show runs July 10th thru 15th, curtain is 7:30 nightly. All seats $10.