ADELIUDE UNIT/ENSITY

TIIEATBE GTNLI)

The GlassMenagerie
By TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

AT THE EUT
Monllay l0th July
Wednesday - lZth July
ltursalay - 13th July
1950
BrrNc a MEMoRy yuv, The Glass Menagerie can be presented with
unusual freedom of convention. Because of its considerably delicate or
tenuous material, atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play
a particularly important part. Expressionismand all other unconventional
techniques in drama have only one valid aim, and that is a closer approach
to truth. when a play employs such techniques, it is not, or certainly
should nor be, lrying to escapeits responsibility of dealing with reality,
or interpreting experience, but is actually, or should be, attempting to
find a closer approach, a more penetrating and vivid expressionof things as
they are. The straight, realistic play with its genuine Frigidaire and
authentic ice-cubes,its charactersthat speak exactly as its audience speaks,
conesponds to the academic landscape and has the same virtue of a
photographic likeness. Everyone should know nowadays, thc unimpor-
tance of the photographic in art; that truth, life, or realitv is an organic
thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, ln essence'
only through rransformation, through changing into other forms, those
which were merely present in appearance.

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ScENr: An alley in St. Louis

Trntr: Now and in the Past

Acr I Preparation for a Gentleman Caller

Acr II The Gentleman Calls

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THE GLASS MENAGEBIE

Charrcters

AMANDA WINGFIELD ....

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LAUM (her dmghter)..........-....... ', WONN{ HARRIS
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TOM (her son)............
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ROSSDUNNAGE

THE GENTLEMAN CALLER . :....RON HADDRICK

THI FIDDLE IN THE WINGS . . .MARIE COGHILL I

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The play directedby

THELMA BAULDERSTONE

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Sctdng and Liehting

CTIARLES BANNON

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Pattons

Dr. T. D. Grnpbell ProfessorJ. G. Comell

ProfessorJohn Bishop , Dt. C. E. Fenner
Mr. Franli S. Johnston

Co*tttittea

Miss T. Baulderstone Mr. Roy I-eaney

Miss Enid Brown IVft. H. W. Piper
Miss S. Davies Mrs. I. Thomas
Miss Rocemary Fitch Miss G. D. Walsh
Miss Patricia Hackett Miss D. Maund
Mr. B. Manden

Miss Enid kwis (Theatre Guild Manager)

Mr. Charles Bannon (Theatre Guild Art Director)

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NOTICES

Enquiries regarding Membership and Subscriptions may be addressed to the Hon.

Secreary, Miss E. Wedd, Harvard lhqqqbers, Nonl Terrace (W 3065) or care
of the Univenity

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Our thanks are due to the young pmple who have givqn their time and assistance
tb Mr. Bannon and Miss Lewis in the erection of the set
Helpers are needed- enquiries to Miss Lewis (Conservatoriun)

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