Did Glass Menagerie director Miles Potter let you go off and find Laura Wingfield for yourself first?
I came into the first day of rehearsals,after clear direction from Miles in the auditions and my own research, knowing that we were going to go in a direction that I now know is not really very traditional. I do not know how I have made it to this point in my career, but I have never seen The Glass Menagerie on stage or on film. I don’t know how that’s happened. So I didn’t realize when we were working how different this Laura was than what people are used to seeing. All I was working from was the text, and to me she seemed there in the words. It seemed very clear to me. We let Laura lead and she kind of went down her road and we just followed. Miles was very encouraging about that in finding Laura’s kind of weirdness and her strength. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; A lot of people have said to me ‘Oh, it’s a play about this really kind of shy, weak, girl and this overbearing mother’, but I don’t se
