Greta Scacchi and Tom Mothersdale will be joined by Erin Doherty and Eric Kofi Abrafa in Ellen McDougall’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, a co-production between Headlong, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse. The play is at the Williamson Square venue from Wednesday 7th to Saturday 31st October.

A frustrated mother, a daughter lost in her imagination, and a son intent on rebellion.

By night, Tom lives the life of an assassin, an outlaw, a Czar of the underworld, via his trips to the movies. By day, he works in a factory. The air in the apartment he shares with his mother Amanda and his sister Laura is thick with the scent of sickly sweet flowers and Amanda’s nostalgia. Laura barely survives it, a shadow of herself. She clings desperately to her only solace, her beloved glass menagerie.

When Amanda insists Tom bring home a gentleman caller for Laura, the fragile dreams of all three are shattered with consequences they may never escape.

Greta Scacchi plays Amanda. Greta is a well-known face from stage and screen, her theatre credits include The Seagull (Black Swan, Perth Aus), Bette and Joan (West End/Tour), Nothing Personal (Ensemble theatre Sydney),A Little Night Music (Chatelet Theatre Paris) and Private Lives (Theatre Royal Bath). Her many film roles include The Falling, Long Time Coming, Brideshead Revisited, Sotto Falso Nome, Presumed Innocent, White Mischief and Defence of the Realm. Scacchi has won an Emmy and AFI award and is a Golden Globe and B.A.F.T.A. Award nominated actress.

Tom Mothersdale plays Tom. Tom’s previous Headlong credits include Boys (Soho Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Nuffield/Tour). His other stage credits include Crave and 4.48 Psychosis (Sheffield), The Cherry Orchard (Young Vic),King Lear (Chichester/BAM), An Ideal Husband (West End) and A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric Hammersmith). Television credits include Peaky Blinders and The Missing.

Erin Doherty plays Laura. Erin has recently finished drama school and will be making her professional debut in Pink Mist at the Bristol Old Vic in July.

Eric Kofi Abrefa plays Jim. His stage credits include Wildfire (Hampstead Theatre), A Taste of Honey (National Theatre), The Amen Corner (NT), Bobby (Royal Court) and The Sluts of Sutton Drive (Finborough). Television credits include Law and Order UK (Channel 4), Stella (Sky) and Samson the Great.

Tickets for The Glass Menagerie are on sale now from the Playhouse and Everyman Box offices.