Award-winning Australian performer Pamela Rabe will return to GPAC’s Playhouse stage this month starring in The Glass Menagerie.
The actress, who is currently best known for her role in the television series Wentworth, last performed in Geelong alongside Hugo Weaving in the 2009 production God of Carnage.
Belvoir artistic director Eamon Flack’s interpretation of The Glass Menagerie won Best Play at last year’s Helpmann awards, with Ms Rabe named Best Actress for her performance as the formidable Amanda Wingfield.
Set in the late 1930s, Amanda finds herself stuck in a tiny, run-down apartment with her two adult children, a frustrated Tom and a cripplingly shy Laura.
Each of the characters go on a journey to break free of the past.
After a sold-out season at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre, Flack’s new production subverts playwright Tennessee Williams’ vision of The Glass Menagerie as a “memory play” about loss, regret and the possibility of hope.
In real time on stage, recollections from the Wingfield family apartment are translated into moments from a lost black-and-white film.
The Glass Menagerie will run from 12 to 14 May at GPAC’s Playhouse.
