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A bit more on the production and the play

Posted by:	AlanScott 08:37 pm EST 11/20/14
In reply to:	re: A Delicate Balance tonight - AlanScott 07:29 pm EST 11/20/14

I also see in this production, in a way that I don't recall seeing before (or perhaps I just didn't pick up on it), a shift during the play in Claire's behavior. She seems to gradually move from trying to provoke Agnes to trying to support her while maintaining her own persona. When it comes down to it, family is family, and Agnes is giving her shelter, and she does see the impossibility of the situation with which Agnes is dealing. And perhaps, just perhaps, she doesn't want the presence of Edna and Harry to lead to her own expulsion. So she tries to exacerbate the tensions raised by their presence just enough without creating too much additional anger directed at her. She, in her own way, is performing a certain balancing act.

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