![]() ![]() Yet she has plumped for the definition of the ordinary struggling mid-life soul. Here’s an actress who lit up the Disney film Enchanted as the princess Giselle, and made waves too as Lois Lane in Man of Steel. What’s remarkable is the relatively unshowy nature of her choice. Though she has been in a phenomenal slew of films, this is a rare foray into theatre for Adams – she started out in lowly regional ‘dinner-theatre’ in her youth, and the programme-note for Jeremy Herrin’s production cites only a 2012 New York outdoor excursion in Sondheim’s Into the Woods (she was the Baker’s Wife). Still, Adams, 47, is too major a screen star for us to pass up on the golden opportunity of seeing her in action, taking the prominent, and arguably leading, role of Amanda Wingfield, the fretful mother who shoulders a world of care about her two young but near grown-up offspring, Tom and Laura, and is all the more complex, pitiable and forlorn for her neurotic, self-denying devotion. So it’s a bold move for the American star Amy Adams to make her London theatrical debut in a classic mounted to acclaim here recently and at the self-same theatre – the Duke of York’s – as that previous production. It’s only five years since we last saw it in the West End. Steeped in pained autobiography, Tennessee Williams’s 1944 breakthrough play The Glass Menagerie comes round often. ![]()
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