Its strength rests on a balanced quartet of actors who portray rounded characters caught in a difficult situation. There is no star in this Glass Menagerie - no villain or hero. She casts actors who can speak the music in the lines and also coalesce as a group. It was the playwright’s first big success and I’m among those who find it as beautifully-written and affecting today.īoyd is a traditional director whose work consistently respects the playwright and script rather than highlighting her own spin on it. Tennessee Williams’ deeply American “memory play” about a broken family – mother, daughter and son abandoned by a “a telephone man who fell in love with long distance” in the ’30s – opened to acclaim in New York in March of 1945. I won’t forget this more modest and crystalline ensemble piece for a long time. I saw the American Repertory Theater’s much ballyhooed production starring Cherry Jones in 2013 and quickly forgot it. Now Boyd has extended her winning streak into the fall with a brilliant production of The Glass Menagerie. Germain’s intriguing Typhoid Mary and culminating with an exhilarating revival of the classic musical West Side Story. Julianne Boyd, founder and longtime artistic director of Barrington Stage in Pittsfield, has produced an ambitious season this summer, beginning with Mark St. Dold and Caitlin O’Connell in the Barrington Stage production of “The Glass Menagerie.” Photo: Daniel Rader.
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