Die Glasmenagerie

Play by Tennessee Williams

Despite setbacks, disappointments and family disputes, the Wingfield family never gives up on their hopes and dreams. Although, or perhaps precisely because, Tom and Laura live with their mother Amanda in modest circumstances, they dream. They dream of a different life, of a better life, of a life without work in the factory, of time for art, of a world outside the gray reality. Their father left the family years ago. Tom supports them by working in a warehouse, but would rather work as a writer. While Amanda rhapsodizes about her youth and torments the rest of the family with exaggerated motherly love, shy Laura concentrates entirely on her collection of fragile glass animals. In this menagerie of strange figures, she finds support and can forget reality. When Tom brings his work colleague Jim to dinner one day at his mother's request, her plan to set Laura up with him implodes in an absurd way.
The play made the American author Tennessee Williams famous overnight in 1944 and was followed by many well-known plays such as "Endstation Sehnsucht". Stephan Kimmig's production ran very successfully at the Deutsches Theater Berlin for many years.

Deutsches Theater Berlin | A Weiterspielen production

Production: Stephan Kimmig
Stage: Katja Haß
Costumes: Anja Rabes
Music: Michael Verhovec

With: Anja Schneider, Linn Reusse, Nikolai Gemel, Holger Stockhaus

Introduction 30 minutes before the start of each performance