Auditions
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Sian Davis
Sunday 18th July 2010
12 Spring Street, Onehunga
1:30pm
Synopsis:
“The Glass Menagerie” is the first major success in a string of plays that established Tennessee Williams as one of the great playwrights of all time. This play is strongly autobiographical. It is set in the Wingfield apartment in St Louis (Missouri), where Amanda lives with her crippled daughter, Laura, and her “poet” son, Tom. Each in his/her own way inhabits a dream world. A “gentleman caller is invited to dine”.
Sian Davis previously directed “Joyful and Triumphant” at Dolphin in 2006. She is mainly interested in promoting New Zealand plays, but is also keen to explore classical, meaningful works from overseas. Previous forays into something enduring include “Hedda Gabler”, “The Cherry Orchard”, “Ghosts”, “Twelfth Night”, “Wit” and most recently “Doubt” in 2009 for Ellerslie Theatre Company.
Characters:
- Amanda Wingfield: (50’s – 60’s). “The little woman of great but confused vitality, clinging frantically to another time and place”. She lives partially in the world of her youth and her “gentleman callers” as an escape from the harsh realities of the present. Her keynotes are etiquette and charm, delicacy of diction, ‘studied pose of religious significance’.
- Tom Wingfield: (20’s – 30’s). Her son, who is employed in a shoe warehouse to support the family. A poet by nature, he feels the environment is destroying his creative abilities.
- Laura Wingfield: (20’s – 30’s). The daughter, who is slightly crippled, has retreated to a world of old phonograph records and her collection of little glass animals.
- Jim O’Connor: (20’s – 30’s). Tom’s work colleague. He is the “emissary” from the world of reality. An average, ordinary man who brings a touch of the common world into that of Wingfield unreality.
Accent: Educated (i.e., gentle) Southern States of America.
Rehearsals held Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at Dolphin Theatre.
Season: Opens 18th September – 9th October 2010
For more details contact:
Director – Sian Davis
PH: 483-4245
Email: Sian Davis -
glass@dolphintheatre.org.nz