Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn’t have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart,” who could have got e…
— plus equally gifted British talents Akiya Henry and Sinéad Matthews — wanted to appear in this world premiere. Rebeck has barely been produced in the U.K., but it’s immediately clear she knows how to whip up bitterly comic set-pieces for actors to sink their teeth into. But she has come up with a clutch of juicy, smart-mouthed roles rather than making them cohere into anything with true resonance beyond the melodramatic twists and turns of a secondhand family plot.
The last-minute, contrived appearance of a letter spilling the beans on past and present relationships echoes Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” which, coincidentally, recently appeared in London with Pullman in the lead. Given his typical casting as benign — he plays nice so thoroughly that even Meg Ryan ditches him in “Sleepless in Seattle” — he must have jumped at the chance to play the epically selfish bastard that is Daniel, father to Harbour’s nicely chaotic, long-suffering Michael.
Not only does sharp-eyed Lillian soothe the atmosphere, she’s there to draw out Michael’s pain and his own backstory as we learn that, eleven months ago, he left “the insane asylum.” At that point, Michael’s lean, grasping brother Nedward appears. Rebeck further heightens the atmosphere with the surprising arrival of a drunken Michael returning home with two prostitutes.
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