#Tom wingfield

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I love them

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ok but zachary quinto looked so cunty in the glass menagerie

also men look their best when grovelling, and zach’s amazing at grovelling

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Today's problematic ship is Tom Wingfield and Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie

Brother/sister incest

Requested by anonymous

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Michael esper tom wingfield my beloved

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hello! apologies if this is unwelcome, but i saw you posting about the glass menagerie and i was wondering if you had any specific thoughts on tom's monologue in scene six, especially the closing line ("i'm tired of the movies and i am about to move!"). i've always felt like i've missed something, that it's deceptively simple in the manner of it being about tom's discontent with his own life and wanting to change it, wanting to leave his mother and laura.

JIM: What are you gassing about? TOM: I’m tired of the movies. JIM: Movies! TOM: Yes, movies! Look at them? [A wave toward the marvels of Grand Avenue.] All of those glamorous people – having, adventures – hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there’s a war. That’s when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone’s dish, not only Gable’s! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventure themselves Goody, goody! – It’s our turn now, to go to the South Sea Islands – to make a safari – to be exotic, far-off! – But I’m not patient. I don’t want to wait till then. I’m tired of the movies and I am about to move!

Yeah I mean, this is a really interesting bit! I think you're right on that it's Tom expressing discontent with his life and a desire to abscond from the Wingfield home, but we can tease out some really interesting readings if we think about what the 'home,' the 'movies,' the state of being in motion, all represent in the play. What’s immediately being said here—to my understanding—is that ‘movies’ (Hollywood, Clark Gable, &c.) are selling a fantasy of a particular way of living back to ‘the masses’ (if you will) as something of a tool of placation by which what the Wingfield household ideologically stands for comes into being. Williams situates this within a project of nationalism—how we make sense of ‘war’ comes to us through the language of adventure and ‘exotic, far-off’ spaces—and suggests that Tom wants to stop living orthogonal to, or as a spectator of, these narratives, and wishes to begin to inhabit them fully, by ‘moving.’ (Of course, ‘moving’ and the state of being in motion versus stasis is highly problematised in the wider play; by the end, we see Tom both unable to escape Laura and lamenting the fact that ‘time is the longest distance between two places.’ The point is, Tom here is watching a fantasy of American heteronormativity play out in front of him via our quintessentially all-American Jim, and realising that he wants to fully inhabit what the ‘movies’ are representing for him in-text.)

I think we can square this off against the argument I made in ‘Polishing the Statue of Liberty’—that Williams repeatedly figures sex between men, or even sexual liberation more broadly, as equivocal to traversing a frontier; I also think it’s important that Tom ‘going to the movies’ in Menagerie can be understood as signifying his going cruising. His desire for ‘adventure’ and drive to leave (the Wingfield house, the imposition of heteronormativity—he experiences his desire for Jim through Laura as proxy) is part and parcel with his desire for men, and leaving behind ‘the movies’ in order to ‘move’ means at once embarking on ‘adventure’ and homosexuality proper. & as I argue in that piece, these triangulated ideas are nicely boxed up together with the figuring of peripheralised sexual practices as acts of frontier expansionism. It’s a fairly neat example of what I was trying to explain here:

The individual Williams is articulated through and within the land, and the process of individual identity-making (through his infamously heavy autofictional tendencies) is carried out in negotiation with the process of settlement; long after the disappearance of a traditional ‘frontier’ as the whole American continent came under the control of the agents of settler colonialism, the lingering presence of a space which is conquered, ordered, and sustained and a space which exists beyond the processes of ordering and sustention is the key ingredient in articulating anxieties of American sexuality. In name, Williams as the momentum behind such figures as Blanche and Laura and Maggie the Cat becomes not just a man but a body of land; moreso, he becomes the ideology baked into the naming of that body of land as ‘Tennessee.’ As such, Williams’ plays, so frequently preoccupied with the artificial yet brutally enforced social limits of desire against the plenitude of the human spirit, necessarily anchor themselves in the landed space through which those same paradigms of desire that sway their movement must be understood.

TLDR he’s saying he wants to have sex with men lmao.

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List of Actors in Sanctuary who Also Appeared in Stargate (Spanning Entire Franchise).

Main Cast (Counting Regular Major Appearances):

Amanda Tapping. Sanctuary: Helen Magnus. Stargate: Sam Carter.

Christopher Heyerdahl. Sanctuary: John Druitt, Bigfoot. Stargate SG-1: Pallin. Stargate Atlantis: Halling and Todd the Wraith.

Ryan Robbins. Sanctuary: Henry Foss. Stargate Atlantis: Ladon Radim.

Agam Darshi. Sanctuary; Kate Freelander. Stargates Atlantis: Novo and Athosian 2.

Jonathon Young. Sanctuary: Nikola Tesla. Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Parrish.

Peter Wingfield. Sanctuary: James Watson. Stargate SG-1: Hebron and Taneth.

Jim Byrnes. Sanctuary: Gregory Magnus. Stargate SG-1: Documentary Narrator (Heroes Part 2). Stargate Infinity: voice (no character listed).

Significant Stargate Actors Not in Main Cast of Sanctuary:

Michael Shanks. Sanctuary: Jimmy (one episode). Stargate: Daniel Jackson.

Tom McBeath. Sanctuary: General Villanova. Stargate SG-1: Colonel Harry Maybourne.

Vincent Gale. Sanctuary: Nigel Griffin. Stargate SG-1: Deputy - Agent Cross. Stargate Universe: Morrison. (he was significant in Sanctuary and had a high episode list for Stargate, so no arguing)

Colin Cunnigham. Sanctuary: Gerald (one episode). Stargate: Major Paul Davis.

Paul McGillion. Sanctuary: Terrance Wexford (four eps + webisodes). Stargate Atlantis: Carson Beckett.

David Hewlett. Sanctuary: Larry Tolson (webisodes). Stargate: Rodney McKay.

Kavan Smith. Sanctuary: Joe Kavanaugh (two episodes + webisodes). Stargate: Evan Lorne.

David Nykl. Sanctuary: Strickland (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Radek Zelenka.

Sarah Strange. Sanctuary: Allison Grant (one episode). Stargate: Morgan Le Fey.

Dan Shea. Sanctuary: Transit Cop 2 (one episode). Stargate: Sergeant Siler.

Gary Jones. Sanctuary: George (one episode). Stargate: Walter Harriman.

Peter Flemming. Sanctuary: FBI Agent Bruce Tanner (one episode). Stargate: Agent Barret.

Martin Christopher. Sanctuary: False Priest/Father Clark. Stargate: Kevin Marks.

Barclay Hope. Sanctuary: Security Force Commander (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Col. Lionel Pendergast.

Peter DeLuise. Sanctuary: Ernie Watts (one episode/webisodes). Stargate SG-1: Sal's Diner Customer, Wormhole X-treme Replacement Actor, plus 20 other roles. Stargate Atlantis: Dr. P. Smith (uncredited). Stargate Universe: Peter. (<- also directed all four shows)

Significant in Sanctuary but not Stargate:

Shekhar Paleja (Credited in both as Shaker Paleja). Sanctuary: Ravi Ganapathiraman. Stargate SG-1: Jaffa. Stargate Atlantis: Doctor (uncredited, six episodes).

Ian Tracey. Sanctuary: Adam Worth. Stargate SG-1: Smith.

Pascale Hutton. Sanctuary: Abby Corrigan. Stargate Atlantis: First Officer Trebel. (<- almost/should have been main cast in Sanctuary)

Carlo Rota. Sanctuary: Richard Feliz. Stargate Universe: Carl Strom.

Other Actors in Mostly Minor Roles in Both (but often more significant in Sanctuary, for obvious reasons) Listed in Order of Sanctuary Appearance:

Lauren K. Robek (Credited as Kirsten Robeck in both). Sanctuary: Maryanne Zimmerman (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Lieutenant Astor.

Sheri Rabold (credited as Sheri Noel in all). Sanctuary: Molly (two episodes/webisodes), Helen Magnus Stand-in. Stargate SG-1: Physiotherapist. Stargate Atlantis: Scientist, Lab assistant.

Laura Mennel. Sanctuary: Caird (one episode/webisodes). Stargate SG-1: Mary. Stargate Atlantis: Sanir.

Alex Zahara. Sanctuary: Carver (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Motion Capture Warrior, Warrick Finn, Iron Shirt, Eggar, Shy One, Alien Leader, Alien #1, Micahel Xe'ls.

Peter Bryant. Sanctuary: Cabal Team Leader (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Hoskins and Fro'tak.

MacKenzie Gray. Sanctuary: Mr. Jones (one episode). Stargate Infinity: Pahk'kal, Napoleon Bonaparte (voices).

Matthew Walker. Sanctuary: Oliver Braithewaite (one episode). Stargate SG-1/The Ark of Truth: Merlin/Roham.

David Richmond-Peck. Sanctuary: Jake Polanski (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Jaffa Leader. Stargate Atlantis: Toran.

Panou. Sanctuary: Sylvio (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Lt. Fisher.

Katherine Isabelle. Sanctuary: Sophie (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Valencia.

Chuck Campell. Sanctuary: Two-Faced Guy. Stargate: Chuck the Technician.

Gabrielle Rose. Sanctuary: Ruth Meyers (one episode). Stargate: The Ark of Truth: Alterean Woman #2.

Daryl Shuttleworth. Sanctuary: (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Commander Tegar, Commander Rigar.

Rukiya Bernard. Sanctuary: Kayla Bradley (one episode). Stargate Universe: Airman Richmond.

Alex Diakun. Sanctuary: Doctor (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Tarek Solaman.

Chris Gauthier. Sanctuary: Walter (two episodes). Stargate: Mattas and Hertis.

Anne Marie DeLuise. Sanctuary: Rachel (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Amy Vandenberg, Farrell.

Aleks Paunovic. Sanctuary: Duke (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Rakai.

Ryan Kennedy. Sanctuary: Darrin Wilson (one episode). Stargate Universe: Dr. Williams.

Terry Chen. Sanctuary: Charles (three episodes). Stargate SG-1: Monk.

Nimet Kanji. Sanctuary: Pili (two episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Doctor.

Ron Selmour. Sanctuary: Kanaan (three episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Jannick.

Raquel Riskin. Sanctuary: Cheryl (one episode). Stargate Universe: Mindy.

Eric Keenleyside. Sanctuary: Det. Michael Bronson (one episodes). Stargate SG-1: Fred.

Michael J Rogers. Sanctuary: Stanley O'Farrel (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Major Escher, Col. Richard Kendrick, Colonel John Michaels.

Fabrice Grover. Sanctuary: Father Nathaniel Jensen (one episode). Stargate: The Ark of Truth: Amelius.

Allison Hossack. Sanctuary: Lillian (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Zerina Valk. Stargate Atlantis: Perna.

Scott McNeil. Sanctuary: Birot (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Kefflin, Townsperson.

Jody Thompson. Sanctuary: Fallon (three episodes). Stargate Atlantis: Hospital Nurse.

Nels Lannarson. Sanctuary: Commander Tollan, Praxian Guardsman. (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Major Green. Stargate Atlantis: Captain Holland.

Sean Rogerson. Sanctuary: Castor (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Nevik.

Richard de Klerk. Sanctuary: U.S. Sergeant (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Dominic, Joe.

Aaron Brooks. Sanctuary: Lieutenant Hallman (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Nisal.

Collen Winton. Sanctuary: Anna (one episode). Stargate SG-1: National Security Advisor, Dr. Greene.

David Milchard. Sanctuary: Garris. Stargate Atlantis: SGC Technician.

Greyston Holt. Sanctuary: Lt. Coxswell (two episodes). Stargate Universe: Corporal Reynolds.

Brian Markinson. Sanctuary: Greg Addison. Stargate SG-1: Lotan.

Lara Gilchrist. Sanctuary: Cassidy (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Hewston.

John Novak. Sanctuary: Thug Boss (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Colonel William Ronson.

Martin Cummins. Sanctuary: Brad Sylvester (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Aiden Corso.

Kurt Evans. Sanctuary: Agent Gavin Crealy (two episodes). Stargate SG-1: Col. Johnson.

Sage Brocklebank. Sanctuary: Canadian Press Photographer (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Rand Protectorate Tech.

Kwesi Ameyaw. Sanctuary: Colonel Bosh (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Olokun. Stargate Atlantis: Technical Sergeant.

J.C. Williams. Sanctuary: SCIU Agent (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Jaffa (uncredited), Stargate Universe: Marine (uncredited).

Caroline Cave. Sanctuary: Sheila Delacourt (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Cole. Stargate Universe: Dana.

Brent Stait. Sanctuary: Finn Noland (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Major Louis Ferretti.

Richard Stroh. Sanctuary: Orin (one episode). Stargate Atlantis: Genii Soldier #2.

Venus Terzo. Sanctuary: Capt. Franklin (one episode). Stargate SG-1: Dr. Francine Michaels.

I spent entirely too much time on this, but I really got going. I also probably missed a few people (and didn't even start on the crew because of so much overlap). I'm not sure if this is just Vancouver film industry at work or what, but I am done.

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Theatre Deep Dive: David Tennant in Hurlyburly (1997)

In today's spotlight on David Tennant's theatre career, we'll feature 1997's production of Hurlyburly by David Rabe, and David's role as Mickey.

By 1997, David was coming off two years of successful theatre. In 1995 he'd been nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the MENTA Awards and Best Actor at the British Regional Theatre Awards for his role as Kenny in An Experienced Woman Gives Advice.

In 1996 he'd completed four theatre roles: Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie at the Dundee Rep, and Touchstone in As You Like It, Jack Lane in The Herbal Bed, and Alexander Hamilton in The General From America in Stratford and London for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He took a day off from The Glass Menagerie rehearsals to go to London to audition for Orlando in As You Like It, and while he didn't get that role, he did bag the role of Touchstone. Follow this link if you want to read most of an extensive essay he wrote about playing that part...while he was playing it!

David won rave reviews for all these roles, including a Theatre Management Award nomination for Best Actor for 'The Glass Menagerie.' His Royal Shakespeare Company performances were all sell-outs, and in particular, his portrayal of Touchstone was noted as a standout performance. And while David had played many previous theatre roles, up to that point Touchstone had been the longest he'd played any part. He inhabited the role of Touchstone for almost an entire year - from 18 April 1996 (his 25th birthday) to the run's close on 29 March 1997. During the run, he'd injured his ankle.

Also, keep in mind he was simultaneously doing his other roles in The Herbal Bed and The General From America! The General From America ran from July to October 1996 in Stratford and from February to April of 1997 in London; The Herbal Bed ran from May to September 1996 in Stratford, and from October 1996 to January 1997 in London.

He was a BUSY boy indeed!

His next role - as Mickey in David Rabe's blisteringly caustic play Hurlyburly, would take him for the first time to the West End's Queen's Theatre (now the Sondheim Theatre). A transfer of the Peter Hall Company's March to April 1997 production at the Old Vic, the Queen's production would run from August to November 1997.

There's a belief in the DT fandom that David played the role of Mickey in both runs - at the Old Vic and at the Queen's. That's false. The only three actors who transferred their roles from the Old Vic were Rupert Graves as Eddie, Andy Serkis as Phil, and Susannah Doyle as Bonnie. David replaced Daniel Craig (yes, THAT Daniel Craig!) as Mickey. At the Old Vic, Stephen Dillane had played Artie, Elizabeth McGovern had played Darlene, and Kelly MacDonald (yes, THAT Kelly MacDonald!) was Donna. At the Queen's, Mark Benton played Artie, Jenny Seagrove played Darlene, and Jessica Watson was Donna.

Photos of Hurlyburly from its Old Vic run

Weirdly, neither Graves nor Seagrove were supposed to star in the Queen's run. Ethan Hawke and Patsy Kensit were!

But Hawke - who would've made his London stage debut - walked out after a day's rehearsal and Kensit followed the next day. So Graves and Seagrove stepped in.

According to its programme, Hurlyburly was originally scheduled to begin previews on 14 August 1997. But because of its casting problems, it seems it began its run a week later, on 21 August? Yet newspapers give dates anywhere from 13 August to 28 August. So I'm really not certain of the exact date.

It was performed with American accents, too!

The director of Hurlyburly was Wilson Milam. Doctor Who fans will recognize the name, as Milam later went on to direct 2003's Scream of the Shalka - a well-known series, one where David featured in an uncredited cameo role as the Caretaker!

Hurlyburly ran for 2 hours and 40 minutes and began at 8pm on Mondays through Saturdays. There was one interval. Its weekday Wednesday matinee began at 3pm, and its Saturday matinee began at 4pm. Tickets ran anywhere from £7.50 to £24.

But what's Hurlyburly about? Set in the Hollywood Hills during the excesses of the 80s, it centers on divorced Hollywood casting directors Eddie and Mickey, and their associates Phil and Artie. In six scenes across the space of twelve months, they hurtle towards self-destruction.

These men hate everything: themselves, their friends, the movie industry, and especially women. Their language pours out in crude torrents of hostility and violence. They snort lines, drink, mistreat women, and shout at each other. A LOT. The women in their lives are just there to use and discard. Their girlfriends are annoying props, other women are sex objects or boring and pitiful, they've abandoned their children, and their ex-wives are the focus of undying and vicious disdain.

The production got rave reviews, and Rupert Graves was nominated for the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. David also got great reviews! His Mickey made an impression as a "mocking and maddeningly self-possessed," "self-controlled, empty" and "cynical outsider". He thought himself a charming God's gift to women type, but had a "detachment that becomes chilling."

Given the amount of photographs taken from the Old Vic run of Hurlyburly, you'd think there would be more photos taken from its Queen's run featuring David. But…no? There's only this one from the programme, and one of him in a blue shirt:

Now for some Trivia Time! During Hurlyburly's run, its assisant director, Charlotte ­Bond, asked David for a favor. She was going to be involved in a play later that year at the Edinburgh Festival called Tamagotchi Heaven and she wondered if he'd be willing to film a small cameo role for the piece.

He agreed, filmed it in about an hour, and promptly forgot about it - until a 2008 Chain Reaction radio interview he did with Catherine Tate reminded him of it. Because she'd SEEN it, and somehow recognized him from it....even though they hadn't yet met! Here's the interview where they speak of it (it's 2 minutes in):

And that, my friends, is what I know of the story of Hurlyburly. I hope you enjoyed it!

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Tag 9 people you want to get to know better. (You can also just read my answers.  Or don’t.  Up to you!  Zero pressure).  Thank you @once-in-a-blue-moon-rising for the tag!  I’ll do my best to be at least marginally entertaining, but no promises.

Three ships: Ooh, this is a fun one.  I’ll do my OTP, my favourite ship I don’t actually write for, and one wild card.

OTP: Mystrade, of course!  Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade from BBC Sherlock.  I’ve posted about 250k words of Mystrade fic on AO3 and I’ve got somewhere around 50k more of works in progress sitting in my drive.

Favourite I don’t write for: Thomas Barrow/Guy Dexter from Downton Abbey.  Despite writing 255k for Sherlock and 0k for Downton, DA is my very favourite series in the entire universe.  I didn’t love the second film (Singin’ in the Rain did it better), but I adored Guy and think he and Thomas would be so sweet together. 

Wild Card: Claudine Pascal/Lizzie Wingfield from Hotel Portofino.  No, I have no evidence for this.  No, I will not elaborate.  I just think it would rule.  One of these days, I’ll get around to writing the second fic on AO3 for Portofino (the first one is also me, haha) and it’ll be these two.

First ever ship: I had to dig deep to think of this one.  I think it was Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans from High School Musical, hahaha.

Last song: “Steal Smoked Fish” by the Mountain Goats was the last song I listened to.  A quartet arrangement of “Sentimental Journey,” as made popular by Doris Day and Les Brown, was the last song I sang.

Last movie: I’m on a 1950s kick at the moment.  I just watched Shane for the third or so time and I watched Rebel Without a Cause last week.

Currently reading: I’m actually between books right now, but I just finished Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which is a fantastic piece of journalism from the 1960s.

Currently watching: I haven’t technically started it yet, but I’m about to boot up the first episode of The Muppets Mayhem.  Dr Teeth has always been my favorite Muppet (and I love the Muppets), so I’m very excited.

Currently consuming: A piece of gum.

Currently craving: Another half-piece of gum.  But only half a piece.  You know how sometimes one isn’t quite big enough, but two is far too much to chew without hurting your jaw?  Yeah.  That’s what I’m feeling just now.

Tagging (with no pressure at all!): @feralremains, @neverlet, @ivysplivy, @mon221b, @stellacartography, @boldlygowhereitsbiggerinside, @icatee, @bakerstreetbasilisk, @just-a-fixed-point-in-time

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it occurred to me that I've mentioned more than once lately about being complimented in public for the smut I've written and I thought, I should tell that story

only sadly it's not much of a story. basically just a fan meetup at Torchsong 2009 (the cursed con where Barrowman sprained his ankle before it started and couldn't fly out, but still complimented my rack via satellite) in which a bunch of authors who were in the same fan space on livejournal planned to get together at dinner the Friday before the con officially started. someone made badges and when they handed them out, people recognized my LJ name (edibleflowers) and were like "hey! you write good smut!"

boy now that I think about it that con was Certainly a Time. got to chat with mark sheppard, gareth david-lloyd and what's his face... dammit I have to look it up. some guy from highlander. (peter wingfield!) carole barrowman, who is john's sister and an author in her own right, and her daughter were there. I had my Jack pony* that I'd made and someone was like "has carole seen this yet?" and when I said no, they basically took it from me, dragged me over to her and pushed it into her hands. this was all in a positive fashion. the next day when my con-roommate and I went to lunch, carole walked in and gave me a nod of recognition, so that felt surreal. passed david prowse in the halls multiple times. tom price was run into by a bicyclist, broke his arm and had to leave early on sunday. and then the organizers were garbage and took forever to send out the photographs. sometimes I look back and wonder if that all really happened or if it was some kind of fever dream.

I do remember that GDL gave the nicest hugs. So maybe it was real.

oh, and re the Jack pony:

(Ianto hadn't been made at the time but I can't not put them together, it's where they belong)

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Starkid The Glass Menagerie

It’s the Starkid dreamcast for The Glass Menagerie! Tennessee William’s American standard that I know very well from performing in it. I know a lot of people aren’t fans of the smaller play dreamcasts, but I always enjoy putting them together. Make sure to also vote in the poll for the new dreamcast you want to see next month and the poll for what dreamcasts you want to see revised after looking at this one.

1. Joey Richter as Tom Wingfield 2. Angela Giarratana as Laura Wingfield 3. Lily Marks as Amanda Wingfield 4. Curt Mega as Jim O’Connor

Understudies:  Jamie Burns (Amanda Wingfield), Ali Gordon (Laura Wingfield), Brian Holden (Tom Wingfield, Jim O’Connor)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.  

[wolverinedoctorwho]

been thinking about what The Glass Menagerie would be like if it was set in 2023.

Laura's life would probably be the most dramatically improved. She could deal with her social anxiety by just. Making friends online. She could have a discord boyfriend. She could find a job or get a degree online. She would have a tumblr blog called "blueroses" with the title "My Glass Menagerie" that was just pictures of her glass figures and occasionally an audio post with a song from one of her dad's records (or cassettes, or CDs, or whatever).

Amanda...honestly there's like a 50/50 chance she wound wind up in a pyramid scheme, considering the whole "selling magazine subscriptions" thing. But I feel like she'd still worry about her kids finding their place in the world. She'd worry about Laura not spending enough time outside, maybe she'd have some reservations about finding Laura a husband IRL. Maybe she'd get onto Tom for being on that damn phone so much.

For Tom, in this au i'm imagining him still working his minimum-wage job, but rather than writing poems on shoeboxes he's got a blog or something to post them on. Maybe even a niche following. Honestly not much of his life would change, because the whole "working a dead-end job, living with my family, desperate to go out on my own" thing is uh. Pretty timeless. Even when he leaves at the end (we're assuming the events of the play still happen as they originally did, even if the circumstances are different) it's not quite as sad, because Amanda and Laura have a better chance at supporting themselves than women would have back then.

Jim's a weird one because I feel like his life would also stay the same, except since we're setting this in 2023 he DEFINITELY has a self-help/positivity/motivational instagram. Wannabe influencer vibes. Despite the fact that he is working at the same place Tom is, but higher up the chain (like a manager or something). Dude totally has a podcast.

Nothing needs to change with Mr. Wingfield. People still work for telephone companies and run out on their families.

The fact that social media would exist in this AU does allow for some interesting commentary. Maybe Tom has a twitter where he posts his poems? Maybe Laura got cyberbullied in high school? How would the added visibility and connection to the world affect the Wingfields, whose suffering is largely due to how isolated they are in the original play? How would the lessened limitations on women in the workplace today compared to the 20s-30s affect the plot?

(Projecting my own interests here but I also think she would relate to Bocchi the Rock. Puking on the floor on your first day of typing class 🤝 performing your first concert in a cardboard box and regularly climbing into trash cans.)

[liveactionproblematicotd]

laura wingfield x tom wingfield from the glass menagerie - brother/sister incest

posted

[writerchickmarie]

John Lloyd Young In St. Louis - Making Memories, Set To Music

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.” 

This line, spoken by Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, fits with John Lloyd Young’s shows at Blue Strawberry for a couple of reasons. JLY portrayed Tom in The Glass Menagerie at Alabama Shakespeare Festival a few years ago...and this character is based on his author, Tennessee Williams.  As JLY explained during his performances, Mr. Williams set the story where he grew up in St. Louis, and he lived in the Central West End - the very neighborhood where Blue Strawberry is located. So everything came full circle for JLY and all of us who were blessed to see him make the role of Tom his own in Montgomery, Alabama. (And as a writer myself, it gave me chills...in a good way.) It was meant to be for him to perform here.

The other reason? Because as we listen live to JLY’s music and experience the magic in person in the present and appreciate the moment, at the conclusion of the weekend it becomes a memory...and JLY always creates special memories for all of us, which are absolutely set to music.  Both old and new friends and fans alike have some wonderful moments and memories to treasure, set in the perfect location.

Each evening began with Tommy Faragher at the piano, starting off the memory making process with his instrumental version of “What’d I Say”. Then JLY came out and sang “Oh What A Night”, involving all of us in the fun from the first moment.  

Audience participation was important throughout the evening in a variety of ways. He encouraged us to sing along (while testing the male audience members’ falsetto skills), clap along, and get up on our feet. And he also worked his way around the room to get up close and personal with as many people as he could - proving that there was not a bad seat in the house, from any angle.

JLY performed some favorites from his My Turn album - “In The Still Of The Night” and “Unchained Melody”, which always sound fresh and new every time.  For the newest members of the audience, the songs were completely fresh and new, and we could tell by the reactions around us that they were blown away. They were also just as thrilled as we were when JLY came around for “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” - and had many of us follow the directions in the song, creating fun memories for everyone involved.

At one point in the set, JLY took a short break while Tommy Faragher rocked the club with “Bring It On Home”...showing his talents and one of the many reasons that he and JLY have been working together for ten years. May there be many more to come!

JLY also performed a stunningly beautiful “Only The Lonely”, which always makes me think how amazing he would be portraying Roy Orbison in a biopic.  He also took our breath away with “Ooh Baby Baby”, and shared sweet stories about that song, Smokey Robinson, and the trip to Cuba as part of the US Arts Delegation. 

He told some intriguing stories about filming the Jersey Boys movie and working with Clint Eastwood on set, including a couple of new ones.  And of course he performed our favorites from the show along with the stories - “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”, “Walk Like A Man”, “My Eyes Adored You”, and “My Mother’s Eyes”.  It’s always fun to watch him get right into character as he sings, complete with the “Frankie” mannerisms we all recognize from the movie...the mark of a true actor.

Another thrilling moment was experiencing the magic in Italian as JLY performed “Parla Piu Piano (theme from The Godfather)”.  This one continues to become more powerful every time he sings it, and was a special treat for the new audience members as well.

Each evening’s show concluded with JLY coming around the room to all of us with “Cara Mia”, then us on our feet clapping and singing along for “Working My Way Back To You” and “Sherry”.  Those experiencing a JLY show for the first time said afterward how incredible it was and how happy they were to be there...and you could tell that they are storing away those musical memories for many years to come.

Each evening we also got to participate in a meet and greet with JLY and Tommy, and were able to make even more memories with photos and great conversations.  Both gentlemen are always so wonderful and gracious, and they are both very much appreciated.

JLY mentioned on stage that he would love to come back to Blue Strawberry with his Mostly Soul set - which would be perfect for this venue.  Hopefully they can make that happen.  We look forward to more moments and memories in the Williams/Wingfield neighborhood...set to music, of course!  There is nothing like serendipity at its finest - and the magic of JLY. Here’s to more of that in the future!

[yessadirichards]

Sam Waterston to leave 'Law & Order' later this month after 400 episodes

NEW YORK

Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on “Law & Order” since the mid-1990s, is stepping down from his legal perch.

The last episode for Waterston's Jack McCoy will be Feb 22, NBC said. He has been in more than 400 episodes of the police drama, earning a SAG Award and Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the role.

“The time has come for me to move on and take Jack McCoy with me," Waterston said in a statement. "There's sadness in leaving, but I'm just too curious about what's next. An actor doesn't want to let himself get too comfortable.”

Tony Goldwyn, who starred in “Scandal” and the 1990 film “Ghost,” has been cast as the new district attorney.

McCoy and the prosecutors would take up the legal case once the New York City detectives were finished investigating a crime, representing, as the narrator says, “two separate yet equally important groups.”

McCoy was a brilliant, hard-charging, angel of justice, prone to bouts of moral outrage and slicing right to the truth. “Your grief might seem a little more real had you not just admitted you cut off your wife’s head,” he once told a defendant.

Bushy-browed Waterston began his acting career as a stage actor in New York with a number of Shakespeare roles, including Lear, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Prospero, Leonato, Prince Hal, Silvius, Cloten and Benedict.

That led to Waterston playing Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby” opposite Robert Redford, and the role of Tom Wingfield in a television production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” starring Katharine Hepburn, for which he got his first Emmy nod.

Waterston, 83, joined “Law & Order” in season four in 1994 and stayed until the show stopped in 2010, returning for the reboot in 2022.

[familyabolisher]

tennessee williams essay fuck yeah fuck yeah fuck yeah

im trying to pull together some ideas about, like ... TW naming himself after the state of tennessee (and having almost named himself after an early TN pioneer settler from whom he was descended) figures his autobiographical work (which is to say: almost all of it) as a site wherein the settled land and the individual settler are merging, the disciplining of bodies and desires as the disciplining of the land -> texts like menagerie and streetcar are ways of grappling with the history of the antebellum south (not always successfully, imo) through this vector of Desire, blanche and amanda as hauntings -> peripheral desires (tom wingfield's cruising, tom's desire for jim, blanche's promiscuity, allan and the man he slept with, brick and skipper, those gayboys who owned the land big daddy took over) as threatening something about the southern settler project (this is mostly in cat but i think reverberates throughout). it's a mess rn but getting there!

[supermusicallee]

tom wingfield listens to dining alone by shakey graves daily