Before Madness There Was Love
Ben BrantleyMarch 7, 2003: WHEN the young man starts to fumble with the buttons of her dress, the middle-aged woman's face goes rigid, but her eyes are swimming with responses. Contempt, humor, hunger, incredulity and, through it all, an outraged glimmer of hope -- every one of these emotions registers in the infinitely expressive gaze of Clare Higgins, the splendid English actress who opened last night in ''Vincent in Brixton,'' Nicholas Wright's earnestly sentimental biodrama at the Golden Theater.
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