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Perhaps Natasha Richardson, the gifted British actress who stars in David Leveaux's sturdy Broadway revival, figured that the play might not be terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking...
...this Broadway revival, the usually cool Nelligan has turned up the heat to blistering lev els. Raucous, tender and compelling, she is an astonishment, the perfect instrument for young English Director David Leveaux's energetic and often surprisingly humorous conception of the play. She is ably supported by grand, goatish Jerome Kilty as her ever scheming father, and there is an atmosphere of stark eloquence in Brien Vahey's set and in Marc B. Weiss's subtle lighting. Only Bannen lets down the side. He is an intelligent actor, but he never finds the fire...