The recent Broadway production of "A Doll's House," where Nora left the house, and for the first time something was visible on the minimalist stage. At first I thought they put a car onstage, and what a wild image, Nora at the end of the play entering a clearly contemporary scene. Then I looked again and realized, no, that car wasn't onstage. I was looking at Jessica Chastain outside a loading dock door on the Manhattan sidewalk. There was Nora, alone in the big city, and she turned to look up the street with a "Now what?" expression on her face before the lights went down.
So powerful and brilliant, and yes, indelible. |
