Elizabeth Hawthorne's marvellous portrait of a mad matriarch illuminates the heroic dignity of a woman who has enjoyed gracious living and is determined her daughter will taste the life she has lost.
Antonia Prebble is utterly mesmerising as an exquisitely fragile soul who achieves a luminous beauty through her stoicism and humility.
Richard Knowles' gentleman-caller shows how the naive optimism of the American Dream carries the genuinely uplifting power of hope.
Edwin Wright is a poet trapped in a shoe warehouse and his yearning to escape family responsibilities is given poignancy by his awareness that artistic freedom comes with the loss of human tenderness.
John Parker's design strikes the perfect balance between solidity and memory. Commonplace objects are endowed with an emblematic quality as they spin through a dreamscape created by light, sound and video projection.
Theatre
What: The Glass Menagerie
Where: Selwyn Theatre, Kohimarama, until June 8.
