‘The Height of the Storm’ Broadway Review: Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Zeller’s play, expertly translated by Christopher Hampton, continually leaves us as disoriented as André himself — “People who try to understand things are morons,” he says at one point — and the accumulation of contradictions is both unsettling and deeply moving. That is particularly true in the gut-check final scene, brilliantly lit by Hugh Vanstone, which is haunting in every sense of the word.