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...This article is part of a guide to tennis from FT Globetrotter When Roger Federer won his last Wimbledon title in 2017, he surpassed the seven victories that the sport’s first giant, William Renshaw, completed...
...But the Wingfields’ collective fantasy of all-American manhood inevitably comes crashing down. In Williams’s bleak vision, even Prince Charming turns out to be a loser....
...Oddly for a nation that more or less invented doomed romanticism a couple of centuries ago, Germans don’t seem particularly susceptible to Tennessee Williams’ florid strain of it....
...cries Amanda Wingfield. Having “put up a solitary battle all these years”, Tennessee Williams’ inimitable matriarch fears for her grown-up children, who still share her cramped apartment in St Louis....
...Cherry Jones, who plays Amanda Wingfield, is from Paris Tennessee. CHERRY JONES: --And your lungs press against your heart....
...Translucent scrims are the only set dressing: one separates the audience from the stage, while others serve to delineate the Wingfield family home’s eerily empty interior....
...The story is written from the point of view of Tom Wingfield but Guare instead gives us the perspective of Jim, as he relates to his fiancée a disastrous dinner he attended at the Wingfields’....
...portrait of the “hothouse of thwarted desire” where he was brought up in St Louis, Missouri, tyrannised over by his mother’s “monolithic Puritanism” (“Miss Edwina” is spitefully immortalised as Amanda Wingfield...
...Jones summons up Amanda’s beau-filled youth, and lets the character drop her gritty survival mode in order to let Williams’ lyricism shine....
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