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Posted: 12/16/07 at 7:06pm
Mixed from Talkin' Broadway, with very kind words about Eve Best.
"It’s much harder for a sunbeam to pierce a dimly lit room than a pitch-black abyss. That there’s enough illumination to see particles of dust floating about the air onstage at the Cort, where the new revival of The Homecoming just opened under Daniel Sullivan’s direction, is not a good sign for a play that thrives on absence. Yet the presence of one performer in this spotty production of Harold Pinter’s masterwork is almost enough to conquer the ambient light that threatens to suffocate the not-quite-encroaching gloom.
That would be Eve Best. The star of last season’s revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten is put to even better use here, as... Well, as always, there’s some question to that. Is Best’s character, named Ruth, really who she claims to be: The wife of a British philosopher living and teaching in America, who’s returned to Britain after nine years to introduce her to his brothers, father, and uncle? Is she a whore whose put-on airs can’t fool the coarse men who know the type all too well? Or is she a mother-in-waiting merely biding her time until she finds a family who needs her more than her husband and three children do?"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Homecoming2007.html
"It’s much harder for a sunbeam to pierce a dimly lit room than a pitch-black abyss. That there’s enough illumination to see particles of dust floating about the air onstage at the Cort, where the new revival of The Homecoming just opened under Daniel Sullivan’s direction, is not a good sign for a play that thrives on absence. Yet the presence of one performer in this spotty production of Harold Pinter’s masterwork is almost enough to conquer the ambient light that threatens to suffocate the not-quite-encroaching gloom.
That would be Eve Best. The star of last season’s revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten is put to even better use here, as... Well, as always, there’s some question to that. Is Best’s character, named Ruth, really who she claims to be: The wife of a British philosopher living and teaching in America, who’s returned to Britain after nine years to introduce her to his brothers, father, and uncle? Is she a whore whose put-on airs can’t fool the coarse men who know the type all too well? Or is she a mother-in-waiting merely biding her time until she finds a family who needs her more than her husband and three children do?"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Homecoming2007.html
