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October 25, 2017

Who is responsible for Emma’s addiction?

You can see from a mile away she’s an addict. Upon arrival in rehab, she snorts a line of cocaine off the reception desk and then makes a list for the intake doctor of other things she’s abused during the previous 24 hours: weed, speed, beta-blockers, gin, ibuprofen, Valium, Ativan, “benzos” and, oh yes, “quite an expensive” Rioja.

She might have added Chekhov, for Emma is an actor who gets high just performing. (We first meet her staggering through the last act of “The Seagull.”) “Acting gives me the same thing I get from drugs and alcohol,” she says mordantly. “Good parts are just harder to come by.”

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