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McTeer's bold choice to play Nora as far more fraught than usual at the beginning of the play--with a hyperanimation that, in her increasing frustration, becomes nervous exhaustion and eventually a kind of hysterical dementia--allows her to make Nora's transformation at the end at once more plausible and more powerful.
Many are from Poland, but assimilation and war have blown them through Germany, Russia, Cuba, and Paris until they fetch up, in various states of spiritual and physical exhaustion, in Manhattan.
Starr is a terror, a one man weapon of mass exhaustion.
I could cite a dozen other tones--of pleading impatience, of emotional exhaustion, of inveigling desperation, and so forth--every possible reaction to the Swede and his predicament.
As Kate Mundy, the stick-in-the-mud schoolteacher who presides over four younger, unmarried sisters in 1936 Donegal, Ireland, she holds her facial muscles tense and signals with her eyes her exhaustion from keeping them so fiercely in place.