Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close's Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is known with mostly common historic and unsurprising details. (One exception is after Isabelle has seen the unicorn tapestries at the palace, she naively asks if there were any of the animals to be seen.) However, with Close who gives a c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:47PM on November 1, 2018