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JULIANNE BOYD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND Carla and Edward Slomin PRESENT BY Tennessee Williams FEATURING Mark H. Dold Angela Janas Caitlin O'Connell Tyler Lansing Weaks SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER Brian Prather Elivia Bovenzi Matthew Richards SOUND DESIGNER COMPOSER VIOLIST Joel Abbott Alexander Sovronsky Susan French HAIR & WIG DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER CASTING Caitie Martin Patrick David Egan Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski, CSA BERKSHIRE PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DIGITAL MARKETING NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE Charlie Siedenburg The Pekoe Group Matt Ross Public Relations DIRECTED BY Julianne Boyd SPONSORED IN PART BY Hildi and Walter Black & Arnold Kotlen and Stephanie Fleckner Student matinees sponsored in part by the Dobbins Foundation & The Alpern-Rosenthal Foundation THE GLASS MENAGERIE is presented by special arrangement with DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC. BOYD-QUINSON MAINSTAGE OCTOBER 3-21, 2018 SETTING An alley in St. Louis, now and the past. CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE Tom Wingfield ...................................................................................... Mark H. Dold* Amanda Wingfield ........................................................................... Caitlin O'Connell* Laura Wingfield ....................................................................................Angela Janas* Jim O'Connor ............................................................................ Tyler Lansing Weaks* Violist ................................................................................................... Susan French STAFF Production Stage Manager ............................................................Patrick David Egan* Stage Management Intern ............................................................Rachel Lynne Harper Dialect Coach .......................................................................................... Susan Finch Dramaturg ...........................................................................................Rebecca Weiss Charge Scenic Artist ...................................................................... Emma McDonough Costume Shop Manager ............................................................... Trinity Melissa Koch Stitcher .............................................................................................Alyson Boughter Props Master .................................................................................Jessica Sovronsky Master Electrician/Lightboard Operator ............................................Miranda Tremblay Assistant Master Electrician ...........................................................Joseph Rainone IV Audio Engineer/Soundboard Operator .......................................................Nichole Seul Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................. Caitie Martin Scenic Carpenters ...................................... Andrew Boucher, Brad Steele, Daniel Stone *Actors and Stage Manager are members of Actors’ Equity Association. CAST MARK H. DOLD (Tom Wingfield) Associate Artist. 14 seasons at BSC from 2004-2018. Highlights: The Importance of Being Earnest, Freud’s Last Session, Breaking The Code, Shining City, His Girl Friday, THIS and Gaslight. Mark has worked at regional theatres from coast to coast and appeared on and off Broadway. He has guest-starred on network television, web series and just finished shooting Louie, a movie written/ directed by the Berkshires' own Robert Biggs. Mark is the recipient of Connecticut Critics Circle and San Diego Critics Awards and a Berkie nominee. He is a graduate of Boston University and The Yale School of Drama. He is a member of The Actors Center. The run of this show is dedicated to dear friends Carole, June and and his own beautiful sister Laura. markhdold.com 2 ANGELA JANAS (Laura Wingfield) BSC Debut! Off Broadway: Stuffed (Westside Theatre), Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Macbeth, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (The Acting Company). Regional: The Lion in Winter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, King Lear (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), In Game or Real, The Winter’s Tale (Guthrie Theater), The Merchant of Venice, Starcrossed (Gulfshore Playhouse), Arcadia (Nevada Conservatory Theatre). Training: BFA, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater. Love to Carl. angelajanas.com CAITLIN O'CONNELL (Amanda Wingfield) Broadway: The Crucible, Mothers and Sons, The Heiress, 33 Variations. Off Broadway: TACT: The Killing of Sister George; NYSF: All’s Well That Ends Well; Public: Stuff Happens; LCT: Third; Primary Stages: Boy; Clubbed Thumb: Baby Screams Miracle, 16 Words or Less. Regional: Berkeley Rep: Watch on the Rhine; Guthrie: Watch on the Rhine, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Playboy of the Western World; Williamstown Theater Festival: Pygmalion; South Coast Rep: Habeus Corpus; Shakespeare Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor; Center Stage: The Matchmaker, The Winter’s Tale, Othello, Oh, Pioneers!; Old Globe: Julius Caesar; Denver Center Theatre Company: Third, The Clean House, Dinner With Friends, The Little Foxes; Everyman Theater: You Can’t Take It With You; ATL/Cincinnati Playhouse: Doubt; Ahmanson, Yale Rep, McCarter, O’Neill Center, Dallas Theater Center, Milwaukee Rep, Intiman Theatre. Film: Oppenheimer Strategies, Fizzle, The Automatic Hate, The Stepchild. TV: Unforgettable, Whoopi, L&O, Homicide. TYLER LANSING WEAKS (Jim O'Connor) BSC debut! Previously, he has performed in Shakespeare, farces and musicals at Lincoln Center Theater, New York City Center, the Old Globe in San Diego, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theater, Trinity Repertory in Providence and many more. TV appearances include The Good Wife and Elementary on CBS. Most recently, he has worked in the upcoming films The Chaperone, A Rainy Day in New York and Nighthawks. Tyler thanks Abrams and Paige. SUSAN FRENCH (Violist) has served as Concertmaster for the First National Broadway tours of An American in Paris, Lincoln Center’s South Pacific, Evita and the National Tour of The Wizard of Oz. Broadway orchestral highlights include On the Town, White Christmas (2008) and Off Broadway’s Queen of the Mist. Susan has performed with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music since 2004, and has held positions with Santa Fe Symphony (Assistant Concertmaster), New Mexico Symphony and Des Moines Metro Opera. Additional engagements include Follies at the Kennedy Center, Glimmerglass Opera Oman Tour, SONOS, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Irish Repertory Theatre, Harlem Chamber Players, American Modern Ensemble and Berkshire Music School Faculty. 3 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: ART IMITATES LIFE The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’s most autobiographical play. Until he was seven, Tennessee’s family lived with his mother’s parents in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The middle child of Cornelius and Edwina Williams, the family enjoyed a wonderful life; his grandfather was a minister and well thought of in the community. However, Tennessee’s home life changed dramatically when his father obtained a job in a shoe factory in St. Louis, necessitating the family’s move. Away from the loving grandparents, the family unit seemed to crack and all but disappear, with Cornelius leaving for long bouts of time, and often coming home drunk and abusive. Tennessee’s mother was trapped in a loveless and difficult marriage, and while the three children had compassion for her, she was also stern and overbearing as she fought to keep the family together. Tennessee’s beloved older sister, Rose, suffered from schizophrenia and periodic outbursts, and his mother was preoccupied with Rose’s withdrawn nature. From an early age, Tennessee had struggles of his own, though his were with depression. Fortunately, his mother recognized that he was different from other boys and bought him a typewriter when he was twelve. Writing soon became his way of escaping from his tumultuous home life. In 1943, a 32-year-old Tennessee was lured to Hollywood to write scripts for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. He disliked the job, but for the first time, he was holding down a steady writing job. Rose was hospitalized several times and in the same year that Tennessee went to Los Angeles, Edwina had reached her limit with Rose’s outbursts. Without telling Tennessee, Edwina had Rose hospitalized at a state institution in Farmington, Mississippi, where she gave them permission to perform a lobotomy. It was an act that forever haunted Tennessee, one that he never recovered from or forgave himself for, and it was that same act that led to his writing of The Glass Menagerie. The characters that inhabit The Glass Menagerie are all recognizable as the people from Tennessee’s world: Amanda is his mother Edwina, described in his cast of characters as "there is as much to love and pity as there is to laugh at. She has an endurance and a kind of heroism." Laura is his sister, Rose; Tom and the Narrator are both thinly disguised Tennessee. By placing himself in the roles of both the Narrator (telling the story as a Memory Play) and Tom, Laura’s younger brother, Tennessee attempts to rid himself of the overwhelming guilt he felt when he was not home to protect, and ultimately save, Rose. The resulting play is an American masterpiece; it’s simultaneously a recognition of Tennessee’s past and an attempt to move beyond his personal circumstances to become the artist and writer he longed to be. 4 CREATIVES TENNESSEE WILLIAMS