The Glass Menagerie

So today i went to edmonton to see The Glass Menagerie a Kill Your Television production performed at the Catalyst Theatre. WOW!!! It was awesome. Very different from the catalyst theatre's usual cup of tea (the last three shows the have done all included at least one intimate homosexual scene), but still very fresh. If any of you have read The Glass Menagerie then you know the basic story though many audience members say that the play was very different from the book. Anyways...there were 4 characters - the crippled ("shhh...don't use that word!") sister, the mother, the brother that supported them, and the gentleman suiter. The mother, Amanda Wingfield (character) was played by Marianne Copithorn...and omg she was incredible...i would go to see this show just to see her...she was Crazy good! The entire cast was phenominal though! Tickets are probably still available on www.tixonthesquare.ca ...the show runs till the 20th of January and it is really worth seeing. Well to be honest it wasnt the best story, but the characters were so well done that i couldn't help but love it. This was my first time being to the Catalyst Theatre and it is so cool! It isnt the ideal big professional looking performing arts complex but its just a modern, classy, fresh space that is perfect for a theatre...but i'm sure it did not cost much to transform into a theatre...and i'm sure a space quite similar could be made in camrose while we wait for our performing arts center. Oh and weird coincidense! As i was walking through the door i was talking to my mommy and i was like "oooh i wish churchmice had a space like this..." and the girl that was working front of house (selling tickets) was like "Churchmice? you must be from camrose!"....turns out that the director of The Glass Menagerie was Kevin Sutley! Kevin is from camrose, he works in the drama department of augustana...and he also was the directing teacher at the summer theatre program i went to - Artstrek! Ao wow small world. anyways i'm done rambling now. chow. Liz, out.