The Glass Menagerie at Austin Community College Drama Department

The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee WilliamsDirected by Marcus McQuirterBlack Box Theatre Highland Campus Building 2000Performances will be April 14th-April 24thThursday-Saturday 7:30 PM, Sunday 2 PMThere is no Sunday Matinee on Easter SundayTickets: Suggested Donation to the ACC Drama Scholarship FundThe Highland Campus is located at 6101 Airport Blvd, Austin TX 78752. Our physical address is 6101 Airport Blvd. However, we encourage you to park in the large parking garage near Clayton Lane and Wilhelmina Delco Drive.THE STORY: Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. The father has left home; Tom supports his mother and sister with a shoe-factory job he finds unbearable. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a gentleman caller for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.

Authors

• Tennessee Williams

Tony Awards and Nominations for The Glass Menagerie