February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
The play, however, might be dismissed as an unusually successful example of case-history theater were it not for the dizzying heights reached by Doug Hughes’s flawless and inspired production, and particularly by the work being done by a trio of our theater’s most gifted actors, one of whom may be giving one of the few truly great performances of the age.
All three members of the production’s acting troika are outstanding, with the sleekly beautiful Laila Robins as an American forensic psychiatrist in London to research her subject, serial killers of female children, the unfailing Swoosie Kurtz as the embittered mother of a slain daughter, and, drawing the vehicle with an absolutely astonishing display of utterly seamless virtuosity, the Irish-born Br