![]() Everything I bring to Laura on this platform is authentic and therefore I hope makes for an authentic storytelling experience,” she says. ![]() Many critics, in the overwhelming praise she has received thus far, have commented on the extra dimension this adds to the character, and Annis agrees. ![]() Her fierce devotion to Laura is perhaps intensified by the fact that she is the first actor with a disability (Annis has cerebral palsy) to play the role. Is that a weird thing to say? It’s just I feel like the play, even all these years later, is still for her and every actor who plays Laura still has that responsibility of sorts.” “I imagine she is watching us in the stalls some days. It also makes her invisible pain tangible for an audience,” she says. “That menagerie is a way of giving the inner world of Laura – and by extension Rose – a physical manifestation. “I view it as an active kind of atonement and expiation for Williams as a writer.” In his notes to the play, the playwright described Laura as “like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf”. ![]() “Rose was effectively silenced when that happened to her, and this play gives her her voice back,” Annis says. She is equally as passionate about Laura, discussing how the role was written as a tribute to Williams’ sister Rose, whose mental illness was tragically mistreated, and whose lobotomy occurred in 1943, against Williams’ wishes, just two years before The Glass Menagerie. Annis as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie Johan Persson ![]()
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