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Part of Miller's recent work, Broken Glass treats the long-but feebly-standing marriage bewteen a Jewish couple in 1938 Brooklyn. The wife, Sylvia (Tegan Shohet '01), has psychosomatic paralysis of the legs after seeing daily newspaper photographs of Nazi humiliation of Jews. Husband Phillip (Jesse Kellerman '01) is an anxious, fundamentally confused individual submerged in a WASP business; he approaches any given situation with bullish anxiety...
...some point we're going to have to believe that Hyman succumbs to and recriprocates the endless radar pleas emanating from afflicted Sylvia at the presence of Hyman. At one point, keying into Sylvia's wide-band frequency, Hyman solemnly advises Sylvia to fantasize that she has just made love to him, as a way to break the spell that the paralysis has come to appear to be. The scene is eminently conceivable, given the psychological pathfinding that has gone on in determinig Sylvia's ailment...
...seems outlandish in its seriousness, as if a strange corruption in the play's text--devoid of any ambiguous undertones that would point up the doctor's assumed staidness, perhaps self-consciously realized as false, perhaps not. Instead, it becomes another prescription, and the questioning yet fascinated look from Sylvia seems almost camp, as the moment of connection slips away...
...detective bit comes in, therefore, as we are faced with stringing together the characters, who seem to exist in independent bubbles--very well-acted bubbles, but bubbles nonetheless. Phillip throws Sylvia to the ground, but he starts just--just--a little to early, and the moment is off. Some pauses adopt an almost film noirish mystery, instead of magnifying emotion...
Life couldn't be better for Gatti, whose career first seized him at the age of 13. Studying at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan propelled him towards what he calls "a magic meeting," though whether the meeting was with destiny or his future wife, Sylvia, a fellow student at the Conservatory, is unclear. In either case, Gatti has moved forward from that magic meeting to the pinnacle of musical acclaim. One needs only to watch him at work to realize how sincere Daniel Gatti is when he says, "I am very happy to do what I am doing...