Dakota State University - Trojan Yearbook (Madison, SD)

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::!'1 Laura uses an old high school yearbook to show her mother a picture of .lim O'Conner, her one-time high school hero. Cast of Four Excels In Williams' The Glass Menagerie Nearly 1,000 persons attended the performances of the popular drama THE GLASS MENAGERIE, March 2-4 in Kennedy Hall Auditorium, setting a new attendance record for dramas at the campus theatre. A cast of four excelled in making a tender, sensitive drama of something Tennessee Williams wrote with much humor. Through James L. Johnson's interpretation of the play as direc- tor, a touching tragic effect, more or less autobiographical of Williams, was conveyed about a mother who dominates her two children to the point that their hopes for creative ability wanes. The characters included: Amanda Wingfield, played by Ruth Wilson, Tom Wingfield, played by Dave Thoresong lame Laura Wingfield, portrayed by Laura Dailyg and the Gentleman Caller, played by Jim Benjamin. 112 Laura, who lives in a dream world of glass trinkets rather than in the world of reality, gazes at one of her most cherished possessions. The room glowed with candlelight as Laura watched Jim admire her prized qlass unicorn,

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Tom Wingfield, a dreamer caught between his mother's visions of the past ond his own dreams of the future, narrates much of the story and adds a sense of perspective to the produc- tion. Dinner guest Jim O'Conner drinks a toast with Amanda and Tom Wingfield prior to the evening meal. Laura having become sick with over-excitement lies on the living room sofa while her mother and brother entertain the gentleman caIIer. 113