I, too, was underwhelmed by pretty much every aspect of the recent MENAGERIE, but chiefly Jones' performance. I don't think she was well-cast as Amanda at all, and having seen Jones in about a dozen different productions, I've learned that she's an actor of immense talent who doesn't always do well when poorly cast. That was the case here.
The best performance of the year from a female actor was Rebecca Hall in MACHINAL; sadly, she was overlooked. I expect Audra to win.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
