YCP TheaterWorks has undertaken the staging of one of the greatest American plays ever written, Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie. Performance dates are Friday, Feb. 3, Saturdays, Jan. 28, Feb. 4 and 11 at 8 pm and Sundays, Jan. 29, Feb. 5 and 12 at 2 pm. The play will be presented at the Van Cortlandtville School Theatre in Mohegan Lake. Admission is $15, adults and $12, students and seniors. Group rates are available.
The quintessential American memory play focuses on the story of outsiders in St. Louis on the eve of World War II. Amanda Wingfield (Susan King), a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility strives to find a husband for her crippled daughter Laura (Heather Campbell). At the same time, her would-be writer son Tom (Matthew Douglas Rowe) struggles with a desire to abandon his role as “provider’ for the family, so that he can run off and have adventures.
The crux of the action comes when Tom invites his friend Jim (James R. Wilkinson) to dinner. Amanda at once pounces upon him as a possible husband for Laura. The dismantling of Amanda and Laura’s world of illusion remains harrowing drama of the highest order.
School is located on Route 6, directly across from the Cortlandt Town Center Shopping Mall. For further information, call 914-528-4145 or visit our website www.ycptw.org.
