Show Lab Theatre to Perform The Glass Menagerie f Press Release It can all be gone i in an instant an imagined world of glass animal figurines figurines figurines fig fig- representing a young womans woman's fantasy world This image is what students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents will portray in Tennessee Williams William's The Glass Menagerie on onstage onstage onstage stage in the Lab Theatre March 5 through 8 on the South South City campus 1575 S. S State St. St Shows begin at pm p.m. with the exception of a matinee at 2 pm p.m. March 8 Williams' Williams The Glass Menagerie is an autobiographical account of the playwrights playwright's life as a young man his c struggles to support his mother and sister while beginning his writing career His mother Amanda grew up in inthe inthe inthe the deep South and tries to maintain appearances in a tenement apartment in St. St Louis Missouri while she makes plans and provisions for her daughter Laura Laura is inordinately shy and retreats more and more to a fantasy world inhabited by her glass collection of animals her glass menagerie Her brother Tennessee brings home a gentleman caller who seems to present hope for her future However the future is as fragile as a finely spun piece of glass which can be shattered in an instant Starring as Amanda in the performance performance performance mance is well-known well Salt Lake City actress Bonnie Durrance Durrance-Doyle Durrance who just portrayed Martha Brewster in the Grand Theatres Theatre's production of Arsenic and Old Lace also has performed at t the Pioneer Theatre Company Broadway State Theatre Salt Lake Acting Company and other Utah the the- aters In addition she has performed in Belgium Lebanon and across the United States Karen Strang of South Jordan will play the role of Laura Amandas Amanda's daughter who lives in her own world An early childhood education major at Strang wants to be a kindergarten teacher She has per- per famed in Lab Theatres Theatre's production production production pro pro- of Trojan Women as well as asin asin asin in Viva Salt Lake at the Desert Star Playhouse The role of Tom will be played by James Patrick Rosier of W West st Valley VaHey Rosier is a student who is secretary secretary secretary sec sec- sec sec- of the colleges college's Masque theater theater theater the the- ater Club He has performed multiple multiple multiple multi multi- roles at Hunter High School including A Few Good Men in the Rain South Pacific and A Midsummer Nights Night's Dream He also has performed in The Tempest and See How They Run at sophomore M. M Cort Cart Brinkerhoff will play the role of Jim the gentleman that Lauras Laura's brother brings home The South also has appeared in The Reel Inspector Hound Little Women A Christmas Carol and Much Ado About Nothing Other students involved in inthe inthe inthe the production of the play include Chip Dance set designer Frankie- Frankie Ann costumer Jason Ziegler music Jaleen Brunson up make Alan Hansen props Bryan Jacobs stage manager Marianne Day program and Vickie Fish graphic design Shirley Grierson is Durrance-Doyle's Durrance understudy understudy understudy under under- study and Catherine Wishart is Strang's understudy Media Coordinator Margaret Aoki is directing the play Aoki who has more than 25 years of professional theater experience earned her masters master's degree in fine arts at the University of Texas at Austin One of the greatest century playwrights Tennessee Williams graduated from the University of Iowa His emotionally intense plays explore what he called the unlighted sides of human nature exploring sensitive characters of failure loneliness loneliness loneliness ness and futile obsessions Williams won Pulitzer Prizes for Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a aHot aHot aHot Hot Tin Roof Those works along with his first success The Glass Menagerie and Night of the Iguana also won New York Drama Critics Circle Awards Williams wrote nearly nearly nearly near near- ly 30 length full-length plays two novels and a number of short stories and plays Ticket prices for the general public public public pub pub- lic are 6 students and faculty ty tickets are 4 with College ID Tickets are available at School of Humanities and Sciences Science's Deans Dean's office room in the g p M 54 r S SS S U s. k 1 r S TT Lab Theatre will present Tennessee Williams' Williams The Glass Menagerie March 5 through 8 S. Here Laura Karen Strang receives Jim Cort Cart Brinkerhoff as her first gentleman caller Technology building on Redwood campus S. S Redwood Rd or at atthe atthe atthe the door upon availability Tickets may also be purchased by phone at |