Among the great female characters of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams has two: Blanche Dubois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Amanda Wingfield, from The Glass Menagerie, which premiered at the La Biblioteca theater. Laura Conejero is the one who assumes responsibility for this role, directed by Martina Cabanas. The glass zoo is “a work that broke many molds at the time, and today many ways of doing theater draw from that origin,” explains director Oriol Broggi, of La Perla 29.
Cabanas declares: “Apart from Laura Conejero, who I didn’t know, the rest of the team has been put together through casting. We have Clara Moraleda, Roger Torns and David Anguera, who in addition to being an actor is a great pianist.” The work has a soundtrack. Amapola, which runs through the work, is our choice, but there are others that are Tennessee Williams’ choices. “It is a jazz that is not so frenetic, but more melodic, more popular, the songs that you hear hummed in a house,” says Anguera. “And the projections are also analog because the author says that from expressionism you can reach realism,” continues the director.
The play begins as a rehearsal where the seams are visible, but the audience is soon immersed in the story. “When the work is so good, don’t touch it too much,” says Cabanas. Torns adds: “The character of Tom is like an alter ego of the author, because the work is very autobiographical. Williams returns home to find that his sister has had a lobotomy and he always lives in fear of going crazy. ”.
