Marshlight Theatre is thrilled to present The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams as the final production of their inaugural season.

This classic of the modern theatre premiered on Broadway eighty years ago. The play was Williams’ first big success and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award as Best American Play in 1945. It has subsequently been performed around the world and adapted for film, radio and television.

This moving play is a memory piece told from the point of view of Tom Wingfield who shares the story of his mother, a faded southern belle who lives in the past; his painfully shy sister; and a gentleman caller who offers a glimmer of hope to the two women.

The show is being directed by Charlie Rhindress who was a co-founder of Sackville’s Live Bait Theatre and helped run that company for close to twenty years. Rhindress then went on to work as Associate Artist at Neptune Theatre and as Artistic Producer of Halifax’s Eastern Front Theatre. He most recently directed Aloria Mae, Scape and We’re Still Here for Live Bait.

The cast is led by Heather Macintyre who has acted for Live Bait and Neptune Theatre among other companies. She is probably best known locally as Grandma in a series of incredibly successful dinner theatres. Emily Atkinson, Ben Blue, and Morgan Grant round out the cast. All three are very talented local actors who have appeared in multiple shows with Live Bait, the Performer’s Company and Marshlight Theatre.

The Glass Menagerie plays at the Marshlight space on Fairfield Road in Sackville, NB with shows Friday through Sunday evening and Saturday matinees, May 2-11. For tickets or more information please visit marshlight.ca.