Scenic design is by Vicki Mortimer, who has previously worked on Follies at the National Theatre. In 2017, Cherry Jones starred in The Glass Menagerie, which was a seven-time Tony Award-nominated production that transferred from Broadway.Įven though we don’t know what The Glass Menagerie stage will look like, we can already get excited. Recent revivals of The Glass Menagerie include a Young Vic production in 2010, starring Deborah Findlay. Now, both aforementioned thespians have theatres named after them on Broadway and in the West End respectively. The Glass Menagerie London premiere was in 1948, starring Helen Hayes as Amanda Wingfield and was directed by John Gielgud. Paul Hilton and Tom Glynn-Carney have both been in acclaimed productions Hilton starring in The Inheritence and Glynn-Carney in The Ferryman Lizzie Annis and Victor Alli complete the cast. The decision to split the role of Tim is by director Jeremy Herrin, wishing to explore Tom’s fragmented character.
The Glass Menagerie is the debut production from Second Half Productions, a new entertainment company founded by Jeremy Herrin, Alan Stacey and Rob O’Rahilly, creating innovative work by world-leading artists for stage and screen, breathing new and unexpected life into classic stories and championing extraordinary writing from new and established voices.The full The Glass Menagerie London cast stars Paul Hilton and Tom Glynn-Carney, who will share the role of Tom. The programme is generously supported by Susie Sainsbury. Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng joins the production as part of a new programme at Second Half Productions, that aims to provide meaningful opportunities for early career artists to learn from, and create work with, senior artists who work across similar disciplines. Gibbon, composer and sound designer Nick Powell, and design associate Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng. Completing the creative team are costume designer Edward K. The Glass Menagerie is designed by Vicki Mortimer with lighting design by Paule Constable, video design by Ash J Woodward and is cast by Jessica Ronane CDG. Tony award-nominee Paul Hilton and Tom Glynn-Carney will both play Tom – at different stages of the character’s life – with newcomers Lizzie Annis and Victor Alli as Laura and The Gentleman Caller. Additional tickets are on sale today.Īmy Adams takes on the role of one of Williams’s most iconic matriarchs Amanda Wingfield, a former Southern Belle living precariously with her two children, Tom and Laura, in a space between past and present. The production will run for 14 weeks at The Duke of York’s Theatre from with Opening Night on. Over 2,000 additional seats at £20 are now available.
Due to exceptional demand, Second Half Productions have today released an extra 18,000 tickets for their inaugural production of The Glass Menagerie including seats for sold out performances and an extra performance on Monday 6 June at 7.30pm.
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