Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn’t recognize her; she’s in the background under faded light, the third character in what is mostly a two-character scene in the breathtaking adaptation of Emile Zola’s breakthrough novel of adultery and murder.
That staging is a deliberate choice by director Evan Cabnet to avoid the standard Broadway reaction to the stage entrance of a movie star; it is one of the production’s many smart choices.
Full review in DC Theatre Scene
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Thérèse Raquin Keira Knightley Matt Ryan
Keira Knightley and Judith Light
Gabriel Ebert, Matt Ryan and Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley and Matt Ryan
