To the right of the raised stage, it looks a bit like a 1940s production studio/work area.

Part abstract - a raised black block with a black, blocky table and no chairs - and part realism.Ī huge glass display case containing Laura's glass menagerie dominates the centre of the space. Is what Jim says to Laura what he wishes he said to her, in hindsight? Regardless it felt more assured and relaxed than the scenario would suggest. Is that the intention? Not having been there, this scene is very much from the imagination of Tom or what the quiet and mentally fragile Laura chooses to relay. It feels, tonally, as if it's from a different play. Problem sceneįor me, the problem scene was when Laura was alone with her gentlemen caller Jim (Victor Alli). Adams' Amanda is less a mother concerned about her daughter's future and more someone living out a fantasy rooted in much happier times. And, she is such a spark that you feel Amanda's absence when she is on stage.Īs the play progresses and the prospect of a 'gentleman caller' gets closer, a youthful coquettishness comes out. She is an irritating spark to her despondent and bored son and pushes her shy, nervous daughter Laura (Lizzie Annis) further into her own world. Tom Glynn-Carney plays the younger Tom.Īmy Adams' Amanda is the antithesis, a matriarch full of bustle and bristle and constantly needling her children.

This older Tom, played by Paul Hilton, sets a reflective, melancholy, almost listless tone to the play, but while he hovers around the edges of the stage during certain scenes, where he is absent, it serves to emphasise that this story is his interpretation of events and sometimes conjecture.

We recommend that you wear a mask while inside this venue.Director Jeremy Herrin has chosen to have two actors playing Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie so that when he is acting as narrator, it is an older, maturer Tom. As attentions quickly turn to securing a suitor for Laura, the fine thread that connects dignity to desperation is pulled taut. While Tom feels trapped by his life in St Louis, the pressure Amanda forces upon her daughter to secure her future is crushing both their relationship and Laura’s fragile self-esteem. Her determination collides with her children’s dreams and ambitions. Shattered by her husband’s abandonment, Amanda Wingfield’s steely focus remains locked on her future security and that of her children, Tom and Laura. Paul Hilton (The Inheritance, Lady Macbeth, A Very British Scandal), Tom Glynn-Carney (The Ferryman, Dunkirk), Lizzie Annis and Victor Alli complete the stellar cast. Six time Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams makes her West End debut in a new production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated memory play, The Glass Menagerie directed by Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Hall Trilogy, People Places and Things, This House). ‘Memory is seated predominantly in the heart’ – Tennessee Williams. Teatergjengere (91%) i The Glass Menagerie Beskrivelse

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