Sidse Babett Knudsen and Morten Hee Andersen take the leads in Tennessee Williams' breakthrough play from 1944, a claustrophobic family drama about self-deception and relationships that will not be reconciled.
Seen through the memories of the son Tom, the story follows a mother, Amanda, who lives through her children and is caught between wanting to set them free and wanting to control their fate. Her daughter Laura, shy and fragile, collects glass figurines and keeps an inner life her family cannot read. When Tom's friend Jim is invited to dinner and Amanda sees him as a possible suitor for Laura, the illusions and the glass house come apart.
Directed by Anna Balslev, the Royal Danish Theatre's in-house director, with set designer Laura Løwe, the production asks whether you can ever free yourself from where you come from, and whether you are as trapped by contempt as by forgiveness and compliance.
