The Complete Plays: The Glass Menagerie (1957)

Production Details
Play:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
The Glass Menagerie
Tennesse Williams
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
4 July 1957
4 July 1957
24 July 1957
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Clive Goodwin

Alan Ayckbourn
Anne Taylor
John Smith
Character
Tom
Amanda
Laura
John
Actor
Malcolm Rogers
Betty Cardno
Shirley Jacobs
Frank Mills
Notes
○ The Glass Menagerie is notable for being the first production in which Alan Ayckbourn - later the Artistic Director of the company - was involved. He joined Studio Theatre Ltd at the age of 18 as an Acting Stage Manager (a stage manager with limited acting roles). This marked his first production as stage manager.
○ This was the first production of an existing full-length play at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre as opposed to a world premiere; the exception being the theatre’s production of Tardieu’s Office Of Information in the 1956 season, but that was a one-act play and a British premiere.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of The Glass Menagerie in the UK.
○ The Glass Menagerie was performed without an interval.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust