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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.
In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.
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.
Like Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds , she plays a woman who's a, well, tumbleweed who gravitates to men she shouldn't gravitate to and takes her long-suffering daughter along for the fall.
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.