Mel Bell will be directing the next production written by American playwright Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie provides a glimpse into the lives of Amanda Wingfield - a woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time and place her daughter Laura - a crippled, shy, fragile creature; her son Tom - a poet with a job in a warehouse who dreams of escaping his mundane existence; and Jim O'Connor, the nice, ordinary young man who enters the Wingfield family's lives as the Gentleman Caller. The play follows Amanda's attempts to create a secure future for Laura who would prefer to stay home absorbed with her own menagerie of glass figurines. All the characters provide scope for some fine acting and the play is a powerful piece of drama.
