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“You’ll find something unexpected,
namely the fiercely moving and seriously funny play Williams actually wrote, in a production that’s lightning-lit from within by the tough, compelling and first-rate Amanda Wingfield of Judith Ivey, giving what is surely the performance of her career.”
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“…the production is suffused with emotion from its first moments to its last, turbulent with the confusions of love and hope and regret and fear that fill any family living room in a time of crisis and stress.”
- The New York Times
One of the greatest American plays
finds new light in this critically-lauded
re-imagining of the classic story of a fragile family hanging its hopes on the arrival of a “gentleman caller.”
Two-time Tony Award®-winner Judith Ivey features in director Gordon Edelstein’s sparkling new production that makes this Menagerie as fresh and vital and sadly magical as its original 1944 debut.
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| Patch Darragh |
Keira Keeley |
Judith Ivey |
Ben McKenzie |
Returning to the roles they played at the Long Wharf Theatre and in the subsequent Roundabout presentation are Patch Darragh as Tom, the son who works in a shoe factory and is torn between his role as the family breadwinner and his desire to lead a life of his own and Keira Keeley as Laura, his frail sister who has retreated to an imaginary world caring for her collection of glass animals.
“The quicksilver Darragh is a revelation …[He] is giving the kind of performance that lingers in the mind for life.”
- Erik Haagensen, Back Stage
“…there’s subtle craft in Keeley’s take on Laura’s fragility, and her performance grows weightier and more complex as the story culminates in a candle-lit kiss with her oblivious gentleman caller,”
- Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly
Ben McKenzie, who is best known for his roles on “Southland” and “The O.C.,” and in the films “Johnny Got His Gun” and “Junebug” joins the company as Jim, the Gentleman Caller.
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