The Pretty Trap
Opening Night: August 2, 2011
Closing: August 21, 2011
Theater: Acorn Theatre
Before Tennessee Williams wrote one of his masterpieces, The Glass Menagerie, he wrote a one-act version called The Pretty Trap. Cause Célèbre will present the New York Premiere of this gem of a play directed by Antony Marsellis (Love Divided By, The Love Course). Katharine Houghton, who brought her fiancé, Sidney Poitier, home in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, is seated at a very different kind of dinner and plays one of Williams’ quintessential female roles, Amanda Wingfield, the mother in The Glass Menagerie. The other characters are the same–Laura, Tom and the gentleman caller. But the tone is lighter and the ending is completely unexpected. Don’t miss out on this engaging evening in a very limited engagement.
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August 5, 2011
The last time most of America saw Katharine Houghton, she was playing the idealistic young white woman announcing her engagement to a noble black doctor (Sidney Poitier) in the 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” with Katharine Hepburn, her real-life aunt, and Spencer Tracy as her parents. Now here she is as Amanda Wingfield, Tennessee Williams’s faded belle and overbearing mother from “The Glass Menagerie.”
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