Example sentences for: mcteer

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  • Most astonishingly--for the first time in my experience of half a dozen Noras--McTeer even manages to make Nora's single most famous line ring true.

  • McTeer, an English actress who won a 1997 Tony award for her Nora in A Doll's House , gives a performance that is so gorgeously modulated you'll think she has been in movies all her life.

  • 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.

  • She knows nothing of this consciously but, in dozens of such gestures, McTeer reveals the unconscious conflation of Nora's conflicts--the way her wildly unfocused energy is the consequence of her inner turmoil, of both social oppression and emotional repression.

  • Every actress would like to play the most legendary Nora but, for much of the first act, Janet McTeer seems to want to play the most irritating.


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