The Glass Menagerie

Book by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Roger Moon

December 4-7, 19751975

   The Story  

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 her 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, the caller, 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 the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this 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.

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service

  The Cast   

Amanda Wingfield	Sue Welch
Laura Wingfield	Roxy Callison
Tom Wingfield	Greg White
Gentleman Caller	Hal Reed

  Production Staff   

Director	Roger Moon
Assistant Director	Wendy Freeman
Set Design	Roger Moon
Set Construction	Marilyn Albright, Norman Albright, Warren Andreas, Dick Davies, Phil Davies, Vicki Fitts, Rodney Fitts, Clarire Graham, Ned Graham, Judy Herlocker, Tom Herlocker, Roger Moon, Nancy Priest, Wayne Priest, Rex Roberts, Betty Stark, Pat streck, Don Wilson, Tom Wilson, Dave Yearsout, Jerry Yeary
Publicity	Pat Streck*, Bill Boulware, Phyllis Parmenter, Marily Schmitz
Lighting	Ned and Claire Graham, Marilyn Albright
Costumes	Ricki Estes, Allyson Moon
Props	Mary Harris*, Mollie Ahlerich, Marilyn Albright, Clarie Graham, Jim Morrison, Nancy Priest
Menagerie	Bill Archer

*Denote Chairperson