11-27 June 2004
In June 2004, immediate theatre project debuted with a groundbreaking production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. The production had been workshopped at Guilford College, and director Hans Meyer felt it needed a professional treatment, so he turned to Asheville theatre artist Willie Repoley and immediate theatre project was born.

"Let me be very clear on this next point: You do not want to miss this show... The final image of Tom's exit is a haunting spectre of melancholy--and, alone, worth the price of admission." - Jess Wells, Mountain Area Information Network "...one of the most interesting approaches to the play I have seen. [Director Hans Meyer] has brought fresh eyes to a classic text and achieved a thoroughly original production that deeply touches the heart of the play." - Jack Zerbe, Guilford College Department of Theatre Studies Chair "Of the numerous productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie I've seen and reviewed, by both non-equity and professional companies and on both coasts, the recent one by immediate theatre project was the most emotionally moving and totally safisfying of all. I commend itp for giving us a Menagerie that Williams would have been proud of. They caught all the pathos and Southern Gothic family dysfunction for which this tortured writer is so well known." - Jim Cavener, Asheville Theatre critic