| She was better, oddly, after she was fired - I saw her about three months into her run, and then again a couple of weeks before her last performance, in the period when she was working out the remains of her contract after The Unpleasantness. The difference was like night and day - there was a go-for-broke quality to her performance the second time that had been entirely absent the first time I saw her, and she finally seemed to be *starring* in the show rather than just playing a role in it. If she'd found that performance before the American critics came in to see the show the previous summer, the whole saga might have played out very differently. |
