'Night, Mother review " dark family saga with Stockard Channing is a dramatic misfire
Hampstead theatre, LondonCompelling performances aren't enough to save Roxana Silbert's staid restaging of this Pulitzer-winning suicide drama Marsha Norman's mother-daughter drama is driven by the theatrical principle of Chekhov's gun: a pistol is introduced in the opening, retrieved from a dusty attic, and the prospect of its firing is what motors the play to its final moments. "I'm going to kill myself, mama," say…
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