Toronto 
Events Description
The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a memory play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Because the play is based on memory, Tom cautions the audience that what they see may not be precisely what happened.
Amanda Wingfield, a faded Southern belle of middle age, shares a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son Tom, in his early twenties, and his slightly elder sister, Laura. Although she is a survivor and a pragmatist, Amanda yearns for the comforts and admiration she remembers from her days as a fêted debutante. She worries especially about the future of her daughter Laura, a young woman with a limp (an after-effect of a bout of polio) and a tremulous insecurity about the outside world. Tom works in a shoe warehouse doing his best to support the family. He chafes under the banality and boredom of everyday life and struggles to write, while spending much of his spare time going to the movies — or so he says — at all hours of the night.
Amanda is obsessed with finding a suitor (or, as she puts it, a “gentleman caller”) for Laura, her daughter, whose crippling shyness has led her to drop out of both high school and a subsequent secretarial course, and who spends much of her time polishing and arranging her collection of little glass animals. Pressured by his mother to help find a caller for Laura, Tom invites Jim, an acquaintance from work, home for dinner. And so the play unfolds….
by Tennessee Williams
Director: Victoria Shepherd
Producer: Julie Rush
HOW MUCH
Tickets : Adult $24.00
Senior Over 65 years: $20.00 (Wed/Thurs/Sun only)
Under 30 years: $20.00 (ID required)
How to get tickets?
Phone: 416-767-7702
In person at venue box office
WHEN & WHERE
Dates:
September 6 to 28, 2019
Thursdays to Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Venue: Village Playhouse
2190E Bloor Street West,
Toronto, Ontario
Street Parking/Paid Parking Nearby
Free parking is available during show hours (if you can find a spot) on Glendonwynne Avenue north of Bloor, and on Runnymede and Kennedy both north and south.
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