Here's what the New York Times had to say about Buckley's turn as Big Edie:
Ms. Buckley goes her own way with the elderly Edith, who seems somehow untouched by the surrounding filth. Her long gray hair is wonderfully fluffy (the wigs are by Paul Huntley), and her offbeat outfits (by Ilona Somogyi) so vividly colored that they could star in a detergent commercial. Her cane and halting walk notwithstanding, she radiates vitality.
It’s perfectly clear why Jerry (a delightfully sweet Mr. Doyle), the handsome young man who helps out around the house, would enjoy Edith’s company. When she cooks corn on the cob in her squalid bedroom, he is brave and kind enough to eat it, and that means the world to her.
This is the moment when Ms. Buckley does something hauntingly powerful, turning the song “Jerry Likes My Corn” into a devastating tear-jerker, reminiscent of Stephen Sondheim’s “In Buddy’s Eyes.” It is masterly, and it is why you will emerge from the theater shaken but grateful, wishing only that there were more of Ms. Buckley in the show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/theater/review-grey-gardens-is-revived-in-its-real-setting-the-hamptons.html?_r=0
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
