American actress Cherry Jones gives a fine turn as Amanda Wingfield in a Glass Menagerie first seen in Boston, Massachusetts, four years ago. Fading southern belle Amanda is frantic to find a man for her lonely daughter, Laura. Miss Jones makes her almost a Hyacinth Bucket figure, over-anxious for social grace, a desperate snob whose drunken husband long ago fled the nest. There is always some bleak humour to be had in this 1944 play, but playwright Tennessee Williams still leaves you with an unremitting sense of misery. ...read
A gloomy affair is saved by the belle: The Glass Menagerie is glum but Cherry Jones gives a fine turn, writes QUENTIN LETTS
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