Many Lights Theatre - The Glass Menagerie

Many Lights Theatre is excited to announce their return with the deeply autobiographical Tennessee Williams classic, The Glass Menagerie, directed by Bob Gorg.

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play with the events pulled from Tom Wingfield's memory of life with his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura, in a lower-class tenement apartment in 1930's St. Louis.  The Glass Menagerie, winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, debuted in Chicago in 1944 and moved to Broadway in 1945.

The cast for Many Lights Theatre's production of The Glass Menagerie is made up of talented, well-known actors from the area.  Tom Wingfield will be portrayed by Larry Eskridge.  Tom is dissatisfied with his job and life and dreams of escaping and joining the merchant marines.  Jean Arndt will play Amanda Wingfield, mother of Laura and Tom.  A former Southern belle, Amanda clings to a romantic version of her past rather than accepting her current circumstances of poverty and abandonment.  Laura Wingfield will be played by Heather Fife.  Laura is both emotionaly and physically fragile, as fragil as the glass menagerie that occupies much of her time.  Jim O'Connor, the Gentleman Caller, will be portrayed by Aaron Haacke.  Jim is a nice, ordinary young man who works with Tom at the warehouse.  Jim is unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional achievement and ideals of personal success.  

The Glass Menagerie will open the seventh season at Many Lights Theatre.  Many Lights is housed in the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 159 N. 2nd Avenue in Canton.  Performance times are Friday, October 30, Saturday, October 31, and Saturday November 7 at 7:00 p.m. with a matinee on Sunday, November 8 at 2:00 p.m.