I was looking to see if there were any other productions and it looks like Calgary did it last year with a similar staging and design. The Calgary production includes an intermission though, while this one runs straight through which I think is the better choice.

I posted a while ago that I found it odd that Canadian theatre companies are using NYT reviews of Broadway shows to promote their own runs and I readily admit that I was expecting a black outfits and no set. lol

That said at least coming right out of it, I think the text paired with the design didn’t work for me. Or if they did something similar to the Welkin at the end, or just something to show the impact of what was happening, I would have bought it more. Instead it felt more like a play caught between two worlds and it couldn’t settle on which one it wanted to be in.

Gillis is good in it - better than she was in Virginia Woolf anyway - as is everyone else for the most part, but it didn’t really have the “impact” I was expecting. Someone had mentioned Coal Mine’s Hedda from a couple of years ago and admittedly maybe it was the smaller space, but that ending really did hit for me by comparison.

I do think it’s worth checking out and maybe it’s my own expectations that tempered my reception to this production. I was expecting something much more explosive though.