BramaLAB – “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, directed by Andigoni Bitsikokou
18.09.2026 at 19:00, Rampa Kultura, Dworcowa 1a, 72-100 Goleniów
FREE ENTRY
*The performance is created by Teatr Brama’s ESC volunteers and will be performed in English with Polish subtitles. It marks the end of their project and serves as a farewell to this one year spent in Goleniów.
About the play:
“The Glass Menagerie” written by Tennessee Williams is a play that manages to capture the role of memory as part of human identity. Tennessee Williams used his own life as inspiration for this play, making it deeply anthropocentric and sweetly sensitive. The characters in “The Glass Menagerie” are trapped, prisoners of their own past. There is always a conflict between past and present, illusion and reality, as the members of the families live off the memories of the past.
Tom, the protagonist, works at a warehouse but he has the soul of a poet. He is entrapped like a mouse, he wants to live freely and travel the world but must provide for his family, his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura.
Amanda on the other hand is obsessed with her memories, always reminiscing her past youth. Abandoned by her husband, left to look after her two kids all alone.
Laura has a disability in her leg, a fragile girl who lives in her own world. Her collection of glass animals becomes a metaphor for her inner life: beautiful, fragile and seemingly protected from the outside world.
The play is not only about memory, but about expectations and dreams that are demolished by the cruel reality. It speaks directly to our artistic, dreamer side, the non-ending conflict: responsibility vs freedom.
“The Glass Menagerie” is performed and produced by the ESC group of Teatr Brama, featuring live original music.
Creators:
Director: Andigoni Bitsikokou
Cast: Manolis Peppas (as Tom Wingfield), Marta Lanzas (as Laura Wingfield), Salvatore Russo (as Jim O’Connor) & Andigoni Bitsikokou (as Amanda Wingfield)
Assistant Director: Zofia Bednarska
Music Director: Salvatore Russo
Music: Salvatore Russo (guitar, piano, vocals), Danuta Hryn (violin, vocals, percussion, kazoo), Jonni Krünes (percussion, vocals) & Maja Krause (percussion, vocals)
Technical Director & Scenography: Jonni Krünes
Lighting Design & Operation: Konrad Bartoszewicz, Wojciech Rosiński & Theodor Słaby
Photo and video: Nurşin Kaplan
Graphic Design & poster: Igor Zalewski
Prop manager: Patryk Bednarski
General Assistant: Wiktoria Gajewska, Michelangelo Ferreira Delgado
Subtitles: Theodor Słaby, Wiktoria Gajewska
With Original music by Salvatore Russo & Andigoni Bitsikokou
Produced by Brama Lab
Duration: 75′
About the director:
Andigoni Bitsikokou: Film and theatre Director. Born in Athens, Greece, she currently volunteers at Brama Theatre in Goleniów, Poland, through the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programme, while pursuing a Master’s degree in Creative Writing with a specialization in Screenwriting at the University of Western Macedonia. She has a degree in Theatre Studies from the University of the Peloponnese and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Media Production (Film Directing). She also holds an Advanced Harmony Certificate in Music Theory. Since 2021, she has been active in directing and screenwriting, focusing on short films. Her student short film Cyber-Ex received three awards and was selected for both national and international film festivals. Her second short film, Crimson Horizon, continues its festival journey across Greece.She has directed music videos for independent artists and has worked as a video editor for television networks, as well as a freelancer in audiovisual productions. In 2019, she created the independent theatre group The Grains (Oi Kokkoi), through which she facilitates workshops in theatre games and improvisation.