THE GLASS MENAGERIE
May 14-30, 2015
The 47th Street Theater
304 West 47th Street
Manhattan
THE GLASS MENAGERIE is Tennessee Williams’ semi-autobiographical account of St. Louis in the 1930’ s. A heartbreaking yet often funny “memory play” told from the perspective of Tom Wingfield (Richard Prioleau). THE GLASS MENAGERIE is the story of a family desperate to break free of the burdens of their past and their present. Tom’s mother, Amanda (Saundra Santiago) has been abandoned by her husband, and now lives only for her children; his unmarried sister, Laura (Olivia Washington), is a fragile and painfully shy creature who retreats into a world of glass animals; and Tom himself is torn between his poetic inclinations and the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. Each escapes into their own personal “glass menagerie” as a means of eluding the pain of their own – and each other’s – existence.