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(McTeer's decision to play Nora's marriage as erotically electric makes Nora's decision to leave all the more difficult, and all the more shattering.)
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.
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.
New York 's John Simon objects to raves about the latest A Doll's House revival, especially those that praise Janet McTeer's Nora: "She lets her hands flutter like Tibetan prayer wheels in a gale, outcoos a turtledove in heat, and flings herself about as if playing racquetball with her own six-foot-plus body.