Brantley: Didion’s “Magic” Doesn’t Translate To Stage

Ben Brantley: “That tension has not been translated to the stage. Ms. Redgrave sounds all the emotional notes in the play clearly and articulately in its first sequences, meaning there’s no further journey for her to take us on. The consolation is that Vanessa Redgrave is Vanessa Redgrave, and she has her own means of plumbing depths.”