MELBOURNE Theatre COMPANY 2026

Costume Design Matilda Woodroofe

Set Design Kat Chan
Direction Mark Wilson
Writer Tennessee Williams
Lighting Design Paul Lim
Photos Pia Johnston

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Tennessee Williams’s haunting memory play stars Alison Whyte in a contemporary revival of one of the most beloved and enduring works of the 20th century.

For the first time in two decades, Melbourne Theatre Company presents the Tennessee Williams classic that changed the course of modern theatre.

Celebrated stage and screen actor Alison Whyte (Death of a Salesman) makes a much-anticipated return to the Company to take on one of the greatest roles in the theatrical canon: Amanda Wingfield, the heartbreakingly hopeful mother who clings to the past while trying to control the future. As she sets out to secure stability for her daughter Laura (Millie Donaldson), her son Tom (Tim Draxl) – yearning for freedom – teeters between obligation and escape. When a much-longed-for ‘gentleman caller’ (Harry McGee) steps into their world, he may be the fulfilment of Amanda’s dreams, or the blow that shatters her carefully constructed illusion.

Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1945 and recipient of the first-ever Tony Award for Best Play revival, The Glass Menagerie is a haunting, poetic portrait of a languishing family and the fragile illusions we cling to in order to survive.