To mark every DCPA Theatre Company opening, we take you backstage for an inside look at the making of the show.

Here, DCPA technical and creative staff offer insight about the scenic design, lighting, properties and costume challenges in staging Tennessee Williams’ classic, The Glass Menagerie. Technical Director Eric Rouse is joined by Charles MacLeod, Robin Payne and Meghan Anderson Doyle for our tour.

Learn just how many cubes of light make up the floor of the Wingfield family living room; how the team uses projections to make sure the absent patriarch stays ever-present throughout the play; why the costumes are more suggestive of a memory than a factual representation of St. Louis in 1937, and much more.

Watch next for our video on the making of Frankenstein, with a first performance on Sept. 30. Video by John Moore and David Lenk for the DCPA NewsCenter.

Production photo gallery:
 


First look at production photos for the DCPA Theatre Company’s ‘The Glass Menagerie.’ To see more, click the forward arrow on the image above. Photos by Adams Visual Communications.

To see our gallery of rehearsal and backstage photos, CLICK HERE

More Colorado theatre coverage on the DCPA NewsCenter

The Glass Menagerie: Ticket information
• Sept. 9-Oct. 16
• Ricketson Theatre
• ASL interpreted, Audio-described and Open Captioned performance: Oct. 15
• Tickets: 303-893-4100 or BUY ONLINE
• Groups: Call 303-446-4829


Selected previous NewsCenter coverage of The Glass Menagerie:
Video: Your first look at The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie: A modern visual twist on an American classic
First rehearsal: This will be no wimpy Glass Menagerie
Casting set for The Glass Menagerie
Kent Thompson on The Bard, The Creature and the soul of his audience
2016-17 season: Nine shows, two world premieres, return to classics
 
‘Meet the Cast’ profiles:
Tom Wingfield: Aubrey Deeker
Laura Wingfield: Amelia Pedlow
The Gentleman Caller: John Skelley