The plot, first: it’s the story of Sorrel (Maev Beaty), two hippie-liberal academics’ daughter who found refuge from her youthful unpopularity in Victorian novels. Sorrel’s talking to us, so it seems revealing, but at the same time she’s talking about herself as if she’s someone else. Hers is a magnificently realized, detailed performance that captures the character’s paradoxical combination of flighty intelligence, self-reflectiveness, and crippling self-doubt. This, for me, represents the unity that Sorrel is seeking: the sense of coherent self, of simple narrative, of first person. Sorrel’s life really begins when the play, and Maggie’s life, ends.

Source: thestar March 02, 2018 17:48 UTC