For High School Students

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennesee Williams

Set in the 1930s in a small tenement apartment in St. Louis, this Tennessee Williams masterpiece is one of the most touching and poignant plays ever penned. Amanda Wingfield's husband left the family long ago, and she remains stuck in the past. Tom, her son, works in a factory, doing his best to support his family. He chafes under the banality and boredom of everyday life and spends much of his spare time watching movies in cheap cinemas. Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor for Laura, who spends most of her time with her glass collection. Tom eventually brings Jim home for dinner at the insistence of his mother, who hopes Jim will be the long-awaited suitor for Laura. Laura realizes that Jim is the man she loved in high school and has thought of ever since. He dashes her hopes, telling her that he is already engaged, and then leaves. Tom leaves too, and never returns to see his family again.

February 26 and 27, 2009

9:30 am

For Middle and High School Students

High Society

lyrics and music by Cole Porter

book by Arthur Kopit

The successful jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven had married and divorced rich Tracy Samantha Lord, but remains in love with her. She, however, is about to get married to a bland gentleman of good standing, George Kittredge. The intense and edgy reporter by the name of Mike Connor covers the nuptials for Spy Magazine, and falls for her as well. She must choose between the three very different men in a course of self-discovery.

April 30 and May 1, 2009

9:30 am

For Elementary School Students

Please contact Lisa Gibbs for information about a possible touring presentation by the Creative Drama class in the spring.

Please contact Lisa Gibbs at 205-726-2951 or legibbs@samford.edu if you would like attend one of these performances with your students.