Marking Sam Gold’s directorial debut outside of his native US,
Glazen Speelgoed sees him do wonderful things to Tennessee Williams’
The Glass Menagerie with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Dutch company proving a perfect match for this striking reinterpretation. Released from the tyranny of the Southern accent (at least, I don’t think their Flemish was accented…) and though placed into a loosely contemporary setting, the production achieves a similar kind of timelessness to van Hove’s
A View From The Bridge, the original recast and refreshed, new angles and facets accentuated in the glass.