Â鶹¹û¶³ Theatre will present Tennessee Williams' poignant masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie, Feb. 26-March 1.
Â鶹¹û¶³ Theatre department head Dr. Don Sandley directs the play, assisted by Jason Barnes, a freelance associate production manager for the Cottesloe at the National Theatre in London, England.
Set in the 1930s in a small tenement apartment in St. Louis, the play's Wingfield family awaits the visit of a gentleman caller in hopes of changing their lives for the better.
Sevy Foster, a senior theatre major from Benton, Ark., plays Amanda Wingfield, the mother who tries to live vicariously through her children.
Shara Lewis, a junior musical theatre major from Melbourne, Fla., plays Laura, Amanda's sensitive daughter who spends much of her time with her glass collection.
Quincy Price, a sophomore musical theatre major from Sharpsburg, Ga., is cast as Tom, Amanda's son who aspires to be a writer but feels burdened by his family.
Ben Barlow, a sophomore theatre major from Atlanta, Ga., plays Jim, a workmate of Tom's and Laura's "gentleman caller."
Sandley notes that the role of Tom was once played by the late Dr. Thomas E. Corts, Â鶹¹û¶³ president emeritus who died suddenly on February 4. Corts, then a student at Georgetown College in Kentucky, was directed by longtime Â鶹¹û¶³ theatre department chair Harold Hunt.
Hunt, who was director of theatre at the Kentucky school in the early 1960s, also directed the young Corts in a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
The Glass Menagerie will be presented in Harrison Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26-28, and at 2:30 p.m. on March 1.
Admission is $12 adult, $9 senior adult (55-plus), and $6 student/child. For reservations, go to www.samfordartstickets.com or call (205) 726-2853.