Turner and Harbour Star in Oct. 25 Food for Thought Reading of Glass Menagerie Forerunner

By: Oct. 10, 2005
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Kathleen Turner and David Harbour, who recently sparked in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, will reunite in Tennessee Williams' The Pretty Trap, which will be performed as part of the Food for Thought series of play readings at the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) on Tuesday, October 25.

The one-act play is a prototype of sorts of Williams' delicate masterpiece The Glass Menagerie; he expanded The Pretty Trap into the latter play, as well as altering its tone. The names of characters were unchanged, however, and Turner and Harbour will star as Amanda and Tom, respectively.

Directed by Austin Pendleton, The Pretty Trap will be presented with Interior Panic, another Williams one-act that also became one of his most acclaimed works--A Streetcar Named Desire. Journalist and critic Rex Reed will also be on hand at the black-tie gala; he will narrate and discuss Williams' works in a historical context.

"These are complete, early, one-act versions of the plays. They were discovered in the archives in New Orleans by a man named Robert Bray. The Pretty Trap is a much lighter version of The Glass Menagerie; Laura and the Gentleman Caller actually go out on a date!," stated Susan Charlotte, who is the founder, producer and artistic director of Food for Thought.

Turner and Harbour both netted Tony Award nominations for their performances in the Albee play. Turner has been an increasing presence in the theatre world as of late; she recently appeared in the Actors' Fund benefit concert of On The Twentieth Century. Her Broadway appearances include The Graduate, Indiscretions and Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for which she earned her first Tony nomination. Her many film credits include The Virgin Suicides, The War of the Roses, The Accidental Tourist, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Peggy Sue Got Married and Romancing the Stone.

Harbour previously appeared on Broadway in The Invention of Love and The Rainmaker. Off-Broadway credits include Between Us, Fifth of July, A Bad Friend, Twelfth Night and Two Noble Kinsmen. He has been seen on film in War of the Worlds, Kinsey and the upcoming Brokeback Mountain, and on TV in "Law and Order," "Hack" and others.

For more information, visit www.foodforthoughtproductions.com or call 212-362-2560 or 646-366-9340.



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