MY MEMORY:  I have taught this play in my directing classes for years. What a joy it was to suddenly be given the opportunity to direct it -- in a gorgeous old theatre with a wonderful cast. It was also the first time I'd directed in the round in many years -- what a pleasure that was.

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THE PAST TURNS TO EVERLASTING REGRET, IF YOU LET IT. This is not a play in which I still expect to find revelations.  Roger Danforth has brought something new, at least to me, to this production which must be applauded. The director has taken his actors down less-trodden pathways into the minds and hearts of these people.  It is hard to say "Go" to a play that has been seen so often, but I do say it about this one. There are things here that you won't see often and you should see.  This Menagerie is much more human than it is glass, much less transparent than translucent. See what makes Williams' people, and Williams himself, tick. – Berkshire Bright Focus

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Christine Decker gives us an Amanda whose every thought and action is focused on survival. You laugh at her foibles and feel her pain, but you never see her as the villain.  When the disco ball whirls the sparkles of light from the Paradise Dance Hall across the historic painted ceiling, the little glass animals shimmer, the period music swells...   These are magical stage pictures that can only be created at Hubbard Hall.             – Berkshire On Stage 

HUBBARD HALL, 

Cambridge, NY​

May 2017

Presented in the 1878            Hubbard Hall Opera House.

 

Sets by Andrea Nice

Lights by Melissa Mizell

Costumes by Sherry Recinella

 

Featuring Christine Decker,  Grace Sgambettera, David Snider and Woodrow Proctor.

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Photos by Kyra Fitzgerald