A frustrated mother, a daughter lost in her imagination, and a son intent on rebellion.
By night, Tom lives the life of an assassin, an outlaw, a czar of the underworld, via his trips to the movies. By day, he works in a factory. In the apartment he shares with mother Amanda and sister Laura, the air hangs thick with the scent of sickly sweet flowers and his mother’s oppressive nostalgia. Laura barely survives it, a shadow of herself, clinging desperately to her only solace, a beloved glass menagerie.
When Amanda insists Tom brings home a gentleman caller for Laura, the fragile dreams of all three are shattered with consequences they may never escape.
Pioneering director Ellen McDougall creates this new production from Headlong, producers of The Absence of War, 1984 and The Seagull, in a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. One of the UK’s brightest young directing talents, her previous work includes critically acclaimed productions of Henry the Fifth, Anna Karenina, The Rolling Stone and Idomeneus.
Headlong in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
Mothersdale conveys Tom's sighing guilt beautifully, and Doherty makes you feel the ache and the agony of unrequited love.
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Every performance is so powerful.
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CAST

Eric Kofi Abrefa
Jim

Erin Doherty
Laura

Tom Mothersdale
Tom

Greta Scacchi
Amanda
COMPANY
Ellen McDougall
Director
Fly Davis
Designer
Richard Howell
Lighting
Gareth Fry
Sound
Tom Jackson Greaves
Movement Director
Dan Hutton
Assistant Director
Lotte Hines
Casting Director