Despite an absorbing performance from the “Eyes of Tammy Faye” actress, British director Jamie Lloyd’s staging is sterile as an operating room.
Usually stripping a play down to the bare essentials — simple costumes, a few chairs — renders it rawer and more authentic.starring Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, that opened Thursday night on Broadway.Despite an absorbing performance from the “If only the actors donned colorful blue medical scrubs.
As the audience shuffles into its seats at the Hudson Theatre, they gawk and snap pictures of Chastain sitting silently in a chair — Marina Abramović style — while a turntable rotates the A-lister around. The actress almost never leaves her seat for the entire 100 minutes. The story, therefore, stays even-keeled with a slow-and-steady pace, like an animatronic ride called “It’s A Doll’s World After All.”
How can such a static tone possibly work for a play in which the main character announces “I have changed” in the end?Actually, her Nora is a pleasure to watch throughout for her aura alone, which has come a long way fromThe actress’ climactic speech is the show’s most electric moment, before a misguided ending.Still, there is a spark of intrigue and playfulness to whatever move she makes, and as Nora’s burdensome debt comes to light, Chastain approaches it with quiet, modern anxiety.
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