Something Cloudy, Something Clear Season Xix

Something Cloudy, Something Clear features a character named August, another stand-in Williams created for himself to tell the story of his first love affair—and be a character in it during the summer of 1940. In the Festival’s repertory casting the actor playing Tom (John Dennis Anderson) plays August; the actress playing Amanda, The Glass Menagerie’s flamboyant mother (Sarah MacDonnell), becomes Tallulah Bankhead; Luke Bosco, the actor playing Jim, the Gentleman Caller, becomes William's beloved Kip; Vanessa Rose, who plays Laura, the abandoned sister in The Glass Menagerie, becomes the doomed waitress Clare in Something Cloudy, Something Clear; and Tom’s absent father becomes Death, played by Paul E. Halley. “These two pieces are spiritual bookends to a career that often overshadowed the life of its author,” says the designer/director of both performances, Dane Eissler.