The Glass Menagerie (2025)

Tennessee Williams

Venue: Dundee Rep, Citizens Glasgow, Lyceum Edinburgh
Company: Dundee Rep

Director: Andrew Panton
Designer: Emily James
Lighting Design: Simon Wilkinson
Sound Design: Reuben Joseph
Movement: Emily Jane Boyle
Associate Director: Fraser Scott

Production Electrician: Rory Kay
Lighting Programmer: Karin Anderson

Photographer: Tommy Ga Ken Wan

Emily James’s barest suggestion of a set – a spiral staircase, a breezy window frame, a hint of gloomy wallpaper lit in moody blues by Simon Wilkinson

Mark Fisher, The Guardian

Simon Wilkinson’s lighting design bathes the stage in hues that move from warm lamplight to stark, isolating shadows. Lighting and colour is used sparingly but effectively, hinting at the outside world that Tom longs for and Laura fears.

Dominic Corr, Corr Blimey

Lighting is startling, managing to illuminate more than just the set and the performances within it. It encloses the openness of opportunity whilst showing us the limits of their lives. Shadows obscure areas whilst light happens upon the exits Laura shall never use.

Donald C Stewart, British Theatre Guide

Heightened by Simon Wilkinson’s low level lighting that lends things a suitably sepia tinged veneer. The result is a lingering dream state that hangs over Panton’s stately production of a play

Neil Cooper, The Herald

Simon Wilkinson’s lighting design is stunning, particularly later in the performance when they experience a power cut and are sitting by candlelight. 

Natalie O’Donoghue, Broadway World