In December 2015, on our first tour, we performed The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, at shelters, senior centers, and prisons in NYC. Then, in the summer of 2017, we teamed up with Opera House Arts (OHA) in Stonington, Maine for a tour to nontraditional venues throughout the state of Maine, as well as performing at the Burnt Cove Church in Stonington, as part of OHA's summer season.
Tennessee Williams calls for abundant music in the play, and our composer, Ethan Philbrick, created beautiful original music inspired by the poetry of two of Tennessee Williams’s favorite poets, Hart Crane and e.e. cummings, to accompany the play.
“I was inspired to love again.”
“Mrs. Wingfield was such a strong willed woman bringing up two kids without a father. Please come back again. You guys are great.”
“I’m a domestic violence legal advocate. I’ve come to the jail for a year and a half. This is the first time I’ve heard laughter + seen smiles. Thank you!”
“It was my first play and it was amazing!”
“Each person in the play was a power to behold.”
“The break in the mundane of the light and laughter was a poetry of words. It warmed me. Laughter and light. A medicine for the soul of pure enjoyment.”
“Please come again. You made my day. ”
“Thank you for coming to a place society tells you is supposed to be scary and offering us this opportunity. ”
“I loved it so much. I never saw theater before. So great. Thank you. ”
“A great light has come to a very dark place!! Thanx.”
“Dope, everything dope.”
“Sensitive, reflective, personal. So many human themes. Thank you for sharing your gifts—come back!”
“It filled me with joy to watch this play.”
“Your play is the best play I ever seen. Will you come back? It would be good to see you one more. Thank you.”
“I remember my family, especially my mother. She wants better things for her children.”
“Leave the jerk at home! We don’t like 2timers! [in reference to The Gentleman Caller]
Jedadiah has a lot of potential and looks very dreamy. [in reference to the actor playing The Gentleman Caller]”
“Good job :-) and I feel like it was real and that I was there.”
Collaborative Team
Tom: Will Shaw*
Amanda: Cherie Corinne Rice*
Laura: Sylvia Kates*
Gentleman Caller: Jedadiah Schultz*
Musician (Maine tour): Ryan Pater*
Musician (NYC tour): James David Larson*
Stage Manager (Maine tour): Luis Santiago*
Stage Manager (NYC tour): Angela Kiessel*
Workshop Stage Manager (NYC): Tierney Nolen*
Set Design & Construction: Jacques Roy
Costume Design: Michelle Ridley
Composer: Ethan Philbrick
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Director: Per Janson
*These actors and stage managers appeared courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
NYC tour presented by arrangment with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Maine tour presented by arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Special thanks to Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine, who hosted us for a wonderful residency in the summer of 2015, where we developed this production, and who co-produced our 2017 Maine tour.
Our 2017 tour in Maine was funded in part thanks to the contributions of 170 individual donors (thanked on our donate page) who contributed to our Fractured Atlas crowdfunding campaign.
Our 2015 NYC tour was funded thanks to the generosity of 129 individual donors (thanked on our donate page) who contributed to our successful Kickstarter campaign.
Thank you, friends!