THE GLASS MENAGERIE
[By Tennessee Williams]
AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY
Auckland, New Zealand
MAY 2013
Laura was the key to my version of this perennial American classic. She fuels her brother's need to tell his painful story, often mistaken for realism.
Television star Antonia Prebble was an idealized version of Laura, who was joined by an all-star New Zealand cast including Edwin Wright as Tom, and Dame Elizabeth Hawthorne as Amanda.
I imagined Tom conjuring the Wingfield apartment in the warehouse where he now works, his swirling memories summoning modern versions of the projections that were cut from Williams' original 1944 production.
TOP TEN PRODUCTIONS OF 2013
New Zealand Lumière Reader
TEAM
Scenery | John Parker
Costumes | Elizabeth Whiting
Music & Sound | Adrian Hollay
Projections | Simon Barker
Lighting | Bonnie Burrill
Stage Management | Natasha Pearl
Direction | Jef Hall-Flavin
CAST
Amanda | Elizabeth Hawthorne, ONZM
Tom | Edwin Wright
Laura | Antonia Prebble
Jim | Richard Knowles
PHOTO GALLERY
[courtesy of Auckland Theatre Company]
The Glass Menagerie (2013) by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin. Auckland Theatre Company.
The Glass Menagerie (2013) by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin. Auckland Theatre Company.
The Glass Menagerie (2013) by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin. Auckland Theatre Company.
The Glass Menagerie (2013) by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin. Auckland Theatre Company.
ORIGINAL MUSIC
WHAT PEOPLE SAID
[THE LUMIÈRE READER]
I have to give huge credit to ATC and especially director Jef Hall-Flavin for giving us not only a great production of The Glass Menagerie, but a brave one. ... A flat-out triumph.
Sam Brooks
[VOXY NZ]
If you go to see this performance for no other reason, go to see Hawthorne play Amanda Wingfield – she has the audience spellbound in the palm of her hand the
entire time.
Samantha Lee
[NEW ZEALAND HERALD]
Acclaimed American director Jef Hall-Flavin brings an openness to poetic ambiguity and skilfully blends the catharsis of tragedy with the
vitality of romance.
Paul Simei-Barton