Alma Winemiller is such a nervous bird that her father sits her down to criticize the compulsive "gestures and facial expressions" she makes singing at Glorious Hill, Mississippi holiday functions. As an upstanding community rector and concerned parent, he believes he must report that neighbors regularly mock Alma's inclination to "get carried away with the emotions of your singing -- that's why you choke sometimes and get hoarse." The fact that Alma is such an irritating presence is not only the perverse victory of her creator, Tennessee Williams, but also has everything to do with Mary Bacon's performance in The Actors Company Theatre production of Williams' 1955 play
The Eccentricities [...]