![]() ![]() ![]() Victor Alli gives the gentleman caller a courteous, well-meaning, but matter-of-fact air – he is, of course, completely oblivious to the hopes he has riding on him – and yet achieves a rather wonderful chemistry with Laura before he makes it clear he’s spoken for. Annis rises to the occasion magnificently: she invests Laura with a clumsy gait, obvious paranoia and a heart-rending vulnerability. She desperately fastens all her hopes on a factory colleague mentioned by her boozy son, Tom (Tom Glynn-Carney) and the play skilfully builds up the hopes and fears in the run-up to the arrival of this “gentleman caller”.įor once, this show boasts a Hollywood star content just to get on with some proper acting and she is more than happy to see Annis, as her anxious, manic daughter, more or less steal the show. She plays not the character based on Williams’s sister – the play’s showiest role – but Amanda Wingfield, the matriarch trying to keep her family together, but, sadly, only driving it further apart.Īdams plays her as an unsettling cross between Baby Jane and Miss Havisham – occasionally taking it upon herself to wear outlandish dresses and dancing around – and her one overriding fixation is to see her daughter, Laura (Lizzie Annis) married off to someone suitable. The big star turn in this revival is Amy Adams, the frequently Oscar-nominated actress perhaps best known for the films Enchanted and Arrival. ![]()
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