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...Janet McTeer, the latest Brit sensation to make her Broadway debut, has the advantage of bringing along a play really worthy of her talents. Ibsen's A Doll's House might seem an obvious war-horse for an actress looking to make her mark. But McTeer turns Nora's famous feminist self-affirmation into more than just a political tract. This is a revelatory performance, the kind that takes a familiar play, gives it a hard shake and makes us experience it anew...
...McTeer (who has done Shakespeare and Chekhov on the London stage and has played Vita Sackville-West in PBS's Portrait of a Marriage) is a tall, imposing-looking blond, which makes her wifely submissiveness early in the play all the more grotesque. Flapping her hands and giggling nervously, she is hardly able to contain her energy--and, indeed, seems ready to fly apart as an old transgression (she once forged a signature to acquire a loan) threatens to unravel her pat little marriage. Yet a freezing calm overtakes her in the final confrontation with her husband Torvald, in which...
Director Anthony Page doesn't allow McTeer's virtuoso turn to overshadow a fine supporting cast, particularly Owen Teale (who also appeared in the London production) as Torvald. He's uptight and patronizing but far from a foolish figure. When he stands alone after Nora leaves, we feel the full impact of the play's emotionally complex climax: both triumph (a woman freed) and tragedy (a family broken), a cause for cheers and for weeping. Most theatergoers will simply let out a slow exhale, after an evening that takes the breath away...
...race, possibly tipping it to his white primary opponent. In Mississippi, a new tier of black party leaders who were active on Jackson's behalf has criticized the former Vice President for continuing to deal only with Mondale supporters. Charged Greenville Attorney Charles Victor McTeer: "Mr. Mondale has been slow to recognize the new black leadership in the South...
...attention of party elders. From 1969 to 1972 he was executive assistant to then Tory Leader Robert Stanfield. He resigned to run for the House of Commons from the Alberta district of Rocky Mountain; he won his seat and, shortly afterward, his future wife when 20-year-old Maureen McTeer volunteered to work for him. The couple married in 1973 and have a two-year-old daughter. Maureen, who continues to use her maiden name and is pursuing her own career as a lawyer, campaigned vigorously for her husband during the past election...