The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee's back in town! But Lamb's Players offers a mix of smart and questionable choices. As Amanda, the controlling mother based on Williams's own, Deborah Gilmour Smyth plays the chattering magpie, and some speeches flow like arias. Amanda, however, also had a smidge of the harpy, missing from this portrayal. As Tom, Sean Cox blasts speeches, an over-the-top, ungentlemanly caller approach that makes Williams's surrogate more irritant than advocate. Though unsure about the degree of her "defect," Sarah Zimmerman locates Laura deep within herself, like a diving bell in a murky sea. Her visit with the Gentleman Caller (Jason Heil, ripped from an Arrow shirt ad) is quite touching. The fourth wall of Mike Buckley's set, autumnally lit by Nathan Peirson, has an airy, expansive feel, a far cry from the claustrophobia Williams wanted, and that Amanda instills when she terrorizes her children with good intentions.
Worth a try.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, May 24, 2009
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm |
| Tuesdays, 7:30pm |
| Wednesdays, 7:30pm |
| Thursdays, 7:30pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 4pm & 8pm |