The Mother review " Isabelle Huppert shines in otherwise stale play
Linda Gross Theater, New York The prolific Oscar nominee has fun playing a woman unmoored by the absence of her husband and son in a dark farce with questionable politics Fatuous and skimpy, Florian Zeller's The Mother suggests that when a marriage declines and grown children leave home, a person could go crazy. Oh sorry. Not a person. A woman. In this oddly regressive work, described in the script as a dark farce, a…