Mad Cow Theatre Company Presents
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

ORLANDO, FL (February 23, 2000) Central Florida’s Mad Cow Theatre Company announces the second production of their season with the opening of the poetic and emotional American classic, The Glass Menagerie. Written by America’s quintessential poet-playwright, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie is one of the most well known and often produced plays of the last century and serves as an excellent portal to launch Mad Cow’s next century.

The Glass Menagerie is the story of an American family caught together in the currents of change within themselves and within society. Trapped in the confines of a St. Louis tenement and the Great Depression the family dreams of escape: budding poet Tom envisions a future on the open seas, his sister Laura retreats from the present into a fantasy world of glass animals and single mother Amanda struggles to hold her family together as her own dreams fade. Audiences will experience relationships that echo with recognition and a world, like our own, that is “lit by lighting”.

Director Trudy Bruner‘s goal is to present an ensemble piece that shows the tremendously vivid relationships of this family drawing all the while from Williams’ cinematic style of telling stories and unveiling the fighting spirit of this American classic. Audiences will re-discover this classic memory play and experience a seamless melding of poetry, imagination and social reality.

The Glass Menagerie features Tom Stearns as Tom; Robin Olson as Amanda, Jamie Wilson as Laura and Stephen Middleton as The Gentlemen Caller. Set Design is by William Elliott, lighting design by Erin Miner and costumes are by Betty Tanzer.

RECAP:

Who:
Mad Cow Theatre Company
www.madcowtheatre.com

What:
The Glass Menagerie

When:
March 16th – April 2nd
Opening Night @ 8 PM – all other Thursdays @ 7 PM
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 PM
Sunday afternoons @ 2:30 PM

Where:
Second Stage Theatre @ The Civic Theatres of Central Florida
1001 East Princeton Street, Orlando.

Tickets:
General Admission - $15.00, Students and Seniors - $12.00
Please call 407.297.8788 for reservations and information.

Special Performances:

March 16 Opening Night @ 8 PM
Champagne Reception after the show

March 19, 26 and April 2 @ 2:30 PM
Talk back sessions with the production team after the show.
Engaging conversation and discussion on the play, the period
and Tennessee Williams.

March 27 @ 8 PM
Industry Night - a special performance for industry professionals.
$10 at the door.

March 29th @ 7PM:
High School night @ 7 PM – please call for information.

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Mad Cow Theatre is a critically acclaimed professional theatre company founded in 1997. Artistic Directors Trudy Bruner, Alan Bruun, Mitzi Maxwell and Rick Stanley present compelling and entertaining theatre in intimate settings. Mad Cow’s next production, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, opens at the Orlando International Fringe Festival April 28 - May 7th in Downtown Orlando.

2000-2001 SEASON SCHEDULE
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