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...same day the body of Allende was trucked to a military airport near Santiago and put aboard a plane bound for the city of Vina del Mar, where the President's family maintained a crypt. Mrs. Allende was allowed to accompany the corpse, as were his sister Laura, two nephews and an aide...
...LAURA JOHNSON...
Although initially weak, Scott Beckett forsakes the flat declamation of his narrative and excess bravado in the retrospective scenes to become a convincing Tom, the dreamer and poet who finally flees Amanda's carping. As his sister, Gwyneth Gibby conveys all of Laura's stiffness and fear in a tiny voice and bird-like inclinations of her head; she is, as Williams meant her to be, one of the glass figurines of the menagerie...
...which is inexplicably being used to prop open the Victrola; I can't imagine Williams' Amanda tolerating such treatment of a picture of the man she chose over seventeen more promising gentlemen callers. Ken Bartels saunters into the Wingfields' home as Jim, the man who comes to dinner as Laura's first gentleman caller and the focus of all Amanda's hopes for her child. His pocket full of gum wrappers, Bartels's Jim is appropriately more whimsical, but just as ebullient as the high school hero Laura remembers...
...weight of this massive set dissolves under Donnally Miller's lighting. By highlighting or spotlighting the actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors are projecting. Thus as Tom silently apologizes to Laura just after he has taunted and cursed his mother, the dark room broods behind his regret and her acceptance...