Review: ‘Is This A Room’ narrows in on an unsettling truth
Much of the play’s effectiveness derives from Davis’s utterly natural yet entirely extraordinary performance, for which she won both an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for the Off Broadway production at the Vineyard Theater. Davis bears a certain resemblance to Winner, but that’s incidental. What gives her performance such quiet force is the manner in which she renders the character’s shifting and conflicting emotions, and the racing mind beneath the placid exterior, as the interrogation proceeds.
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