Imogen Stubbs Joins THE GLASS MENAGERIE UK Tour

Stage and screen star Imogen Stubbs is set to star in the upcoming UK tour of THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams. The tour will begin in Salisbury with performances from March 4th through March 20th. The production will be directed by Polly Teate.

The cast will also feature Patrick Kennedy, Emma Lowndes, and Kyle Soller. The design team will feature production design by Naomi Dawson, lighting design by Colin Grenfell, video design by Thomas Grey, and original music by Peter Salem.

In the tenement apartments of St. Louis, the Wingfield family struggle to make ends meet. As America is ravaged by the Depression, Amanda clings to memories of her idyllic youth in the South, where she was wooed by scores of rich and handsome suitors. With her husband long gone and her own days of courtship over she is determined to find her daughter a husband. But Laura is painfully shy. She plays with her collection of glass animals and lives in a world of her own. And Amanda's son, Tom, an aspiring poet in a dead-end job, secretly dreams of escape.

Stubbs' stage career took-off in 1986 when she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and played Queen Isabel in Richard II alongside Jeremy Irons, Michael Kitchen and Nathaniel Parker. Other roles that season included the Gaoler's Daughter in Two Noble Kinsmen and Hellena in The Rover again with Jeremy Irons, Nathaniel Parker and Sinead Cusack. In 1990 she returned to the RSC to play Desdemona in Othello which was directed by her now husband, Trevor Nunn (picture on right). She has also appeared on stage at Edinburgh in Poison, Sweeney Agonistes, The Twits and The Oxford Revue. She was in Cabaret and The Boyfriend at Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. In 1992 she played Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House at the Haymarket Theatre; she was Joan in St Joan in 1994 with Theatre Clwyd and at The Strand Theatre. In 1996 she played Yelena in Uncle Vanya at the Albery Theatre and in 1997 she returned to the Haymarket to play Stella Kowalski in A Street Car Named Desire. In 1998 Imogen appeared at The National Theatre in Betrayal and she recently appeared at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Ben Elton's Blast From the Past and in The West End in Patrick Marber's Closer.

The production will tour in Watford Place from March 23rd to 27th, The Liverpool Playhouse from April 7th to 10th, Cambridge Arts from April 13th to 17th, Oxford Playhouse from April 20th to 24th, Glasgow Citizens from April 27th to May 1st, and Newtownabbey from May 5th to 8th.

Tickets for THE GLASS MENAGERIE are available for purchase through each theatre, which can be found at www.sharedexperience.org.uk.

Shared Experience is committed to creating theatre which goes beyond our everyday lives. For Shared Experience the rehearsal process is a genuinely open forum for asking questions and taking risks that redefine the possibilities of performance. At the heart of the company's work is the power and excitement of the performer's physical presence and the unique collaboration between actor and audience - a shared experience.

Shared Experience is a truly world-class company. Exciting and accessible, it has been instrumental in pioneering a distinctive performance style that unites both physical and text based theatre, creating magical evenings of daring experiment which have captivated audiences worldwide.

For more information, visit www.sharedexperience.org.uk.