Stage Door: Isabelle Huppert is "The Mother"
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 10:14PM Since we're in the thick of theater season with the Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony Awards coming up, that means an extra stage review here and there! Here's Eric Blume...
One of TFE’s favorite actresses, Isabelle Huppert, currently stars off-Broadway in writer Florian Zeller’s new play, The Mother. As you might guess, she kills it in Zeller’s non-linear play. The Mother is challenging and archly theatrical, with scenes being acted and re-enacted, timelines being blurred, and reality and fantasy being blended in gloriously unclear ways to achieve both a distancing and an immediacy. This is intelligent and precise writing, not an easy ride for theatergoers, and demanding in its shifts both temporal and stylistic.
But Huppert is deep in character as always, sinking into the skin of the matriarch in the four-person family play...