![]() To that effect, Herrin, designer Vicki Mortimer and lighting designer Paule Constable refuse to create a standard study in nostalgia. The production is taking the narrator’s opening address fully to heart: “I am the opposite of a stage magician.” Instead of presenting illusion with the appearance of truth, Tom says, “I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” Herrin splits the character of Tom in two with a pensive, near mournful Paul Hilton as a reflective older narrator and a faintly exasperated Tom Glynn-Carney as young Tom, aching to escape the claustrophobia of the family home and the shoe warehouse where he works. Stripping away almost all props and laying bare the staging mechanics, he’s attempting to expose and enhance the play’s essence. Director Jeremy Herrin is faithful to multiple elements of Williams’ stage directions - including a screen of accompanying images above the action - but he aims to deliver the play’s essence in unexpected ways. ![]() With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you’d be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams’ play “ The Glass Menagerie” might be everything you’d expect of a nicely upholstered revival. ![]()
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