The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street Providence

Few theatrical debuts have more loudly trumpeted a writer's genius than The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first successful play. Tom Wingfield is a poet struggling with a mind-numbing job and a smothering home life. His overbearing mother, a former Southern belle, constantly pushes her son to bring home "gentleman callers" for his painfully shy sister. When Tom finally produces a male visitor, the guest's presence sends shockwaves through the family -- and the fragile fantasy world they've built is irreparably cracked. Full of poetry and longing, this Trinity Repertory Company production of The Glass Menagerie is directed by award winner Brian Mertes (A Lie of the Mind) and shows us the Wingfields as we've never seen them before.

Thru - Mar 29, 2015