The Glass Menagerie starring Cherry Jones - Edinburgh

I'm a bit disappointed this has been discounted so much for its final month. I read the Sally Field Sam Gold production on Broadway is only playing 77% capacity. I don't see what makes this play any less commercial than similar works in the theatrical canon that have performed/are performing a lot better. (WAOVW, Streetcar, Long Day's Journey, Hedda Gabler...)

Have to agree with you monkey, I didn't think it was quite the wow that it was made out to be. I thought Tom was a bit too bouncy and wholesome....I wanted him to be more nervy and underfed....he looked far too happy some of the time for a tortured soul! I was glad I had persisted (thanks to the board) and got my seats moved from F low number to A5...I had a look at the interval and you couldn't see the table discussion at all from original seat! And who designs (transfers) a production that does not work from most of the stalls?
Overall I was glad I went but mostly to see that scene between O'Flynn and Smith....

Oh, the shark fin is ABSOLUTELY the moon, created in its entirety by the reflection in the water, but I think a lot of us on here saw the play from the stalls so will continue to affectionately refer to it as a shark fin.

I saw this yesterday and had high hopes from the thoughts on here that weren't entirely realised. I did have some annoying neighbours which doesn't help matters, the noisy eaters, the woman who repeated lines and randomly talked and then got her phone out to check, the leaners who suddenly block your view. Plus i'd gone for the royal circle to appreciate the floor and think i'd have been better off closer up as the acting would have had more impact and pretty as the lights were they weren't that impressive and I could only think of the moon as a shark anyway.

I haven't a lot of experience with Tennesse Williams and whilst this was a play that was never going to end well it took me quite a while to stop expecting 'something' to happen. I rather liked Cherry Jones' southern belle though yes she was utterly suffocating, you could almost see her driving her children to their ends but I pitied her as much as she frustrated. I found Laura's character a little challenging to start with, almost willing her to speak but then in the two hander scene with gentleman caller watching her blossom and come alive did just highlight how trapped she was by so many things and how painful that was. If i'd sat closer I expect I would have been doing my best frown face which I can feel myself doing when something sad happens on stage.

So I think it was a good play for me to have seen without perhaps being wild about it when I was seeing it.

Saw this yesterday on my super-double-bargain £5 TodayTix with referral code ticket! Stalls seat so didn't get the full design impact but, for me, the 'up close' thing with faces outweighs that (especially when I've left my distance glasses behind!). Agree totally with others who have said this had awards written all over it, if not for Harry Potter and the All-Conquering Play. Cherry Jones was a joy, but I particularly enjoyed the scene between Kate O'Flyn and Brian J Smith - Laura opening like a flower under the gentle warmth of The Gentleman Caller's attention, delicate and fragile as her glass menagerie. Beautifully handled by both.

I suspect that's where I went wrong, chose circle seats for design when should have gone stalls for up close with faces, when will I learn. This one has grown in my estimation since I've seen it.

Depends on the stalls seats though...I saw it yesterday from front row and hated the seat. The small table in the front blocked the sofa and didn't see anything from the floor, probably for the first time in my life, I wished I was in the circle. Seeing them up and close was nice but didn't always make up for the frustration.

On the bright side for everyone who was slightly unhappy about the seats, they filmed yesterday's performance for the V&A archives...really hope the V&A does a screening like they did for Hangmen and not just archive it with no public access.

Anyone can go to the V&A, you just have to request and appointment: www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/archives-theatre-performance/

It's not the most glamorous of settings, and a bit of a faff to get to/sign in etc but if you really want to see something it's worth it.

Between this and HPotter, John Tiffany had quite a year, right? What a MARVELOUS production.

I love Mr Williams' plays and this is no exception. All the characters are sooo damaged on their own way, with their lifes, choices, everything Just collides and thats tragic, but Very touching.

Amanda is a hell of a character, right? And Cherry Jones is a pure delight to watch, she never miss a beat and her dialog at the begining of the Second act is to die for.

I thought Mister Esper was Very Flamboyant even for Tom, but overall his performance was amazing.

Brian J Smith is a hell of a man, and when he enters the stage, he brings such charisma, light that its impossible not to fall in love.

And Kate O'Flynn, what an amazing actress, Just like Poots in Woolf, she Knows Just the right time to get her moments and almost made me cry when she decided to deliver you know what.

Again, amazing production of a great play (I adored the Lake lol) with a perfect cast.

I don't have a clue what she delivered, and I know this play inside out! :-) Which bit do you mean?

I'm honestly bemused by the praise for this actress on here. I found her performance extremely mannered.

Amazing, thank you! Wasn't aware of this!