Hampstead theatre, LondonCompelling performances aren't enough to save Roxana Silbert's staid restaging of this Pulitzer-winning suicide drama Marsha Norman's mother-daughter drama is driven by the theatrical principle of Chekhov's gun: a pistol is introduced in the opening, retrieved from a dusty attic, and the prospect of its firing is what motors the play to its final moments. "I'm going to kill myself, mama," say…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on October 29, 2021