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Another highlight is Hayes's speech about the "gentleman callers" of her youth: the boy that "every girl in the Delta had set her cap for" and the boy who "carried [her] picture on him the night he died." Wingfield's flirtation with the gentleman caller, Jim O'Connor (Glenn Kessler), and his continual open-mouthed inability to get a word in, are also exceptional...
This play traces the relationships between a Southern belle mother, Amanda Wingfield (Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes); her son Tom (Peter Mitchell), a poet starved for adventure; and her daughter Laura (Jeanne Simpson), a painfully shy cripple. Throughout the play, Ms. Wingfield battles Laura's shyness and conspires to introduce her daughter to a "gentleman caller...
...final scenes of the play, director Sonya Rasminsky skillfully contrasts Laura's shyness with her mother's overbearing small talk. While Laura becomes ill at the thought of social interaction, Ma Wingfield rambles, "Light clothes an' light food are what warm weather calls fo'. You know our blood gets so thick during th' winter, it takes a while fo' us to adjust ou'selves...
...addition, Rasminsky's attention to detail adds depth to her characterizations. She has Laura stumble against a chair while crossing the stage and Ms. Wingfield brush Tom's cowlick in the middle of an argument...
...keep it as a reminder of suffering, another would sell it to buy the farm where the family were once chattel. Playwright August Wilson was the most important American stage voice to emerge in the '80s, and this piano is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...