TIFTON —
Auditions for the Baldwin Players’ production of the “The Glass Menagerie” will be held at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on Jan. 15-16 at 6:30 p.m. in Conger Hall, Room 319. Auditions are open to all ABAC students, faculty, staff, and the community. The play will run from March 7-9.
Written by Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” is a five-character memory play that debuted in 1944. The play was then moved to Broadway and in 1945 it garnered the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Tagged by many to be an autobiographical play about Williams' life, the characters and story mimic his own life more closely than any of his other works.
The cast of characters includes Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle abandoned by her husband who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions; Tom Wingfield, Amanda's son who feels both obligated to yet burdened by his family; and Laura Wingfield, Amanda's daughter and Tom's older sister who is left with a limp due to a childhood illness and an inferiority complex that has caused her to be isolated from the outside world so she creates a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines.
Other characters include Jim, an old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura who was a popular athlete during his days at Soldan High School and is now a shipping clerk at the same shoe warehouse in which Tom works; and Mr. Wingfield, Amanda's absentee husband and Laura and Tom’s father who abandoned his family 16 years before the play's action. Although he doesn't appear onstage, Mr. Wingfield is frequently referred to by Amanda and his picture is prominently displayed in the Wingfields' living room.
The production will run from March 7-9 in Howard Auditorium at 7 p.m. each night. The play is free to ABAC faculty, staff and students. There is a $5 admission fee for the general public. This play deals with adult themes and situations and contains strong language.
For more information, interested persons can contact Dr. Brian Ray, Theatre Director of the Baldwin Players, at (229) 391-4969 or at bray@abac.edu.
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