The Shadows of an Airborne Life
Ben BrantleyOctober 24, 2010: Jan Maxwell is an actress of such natural authority that she becomes the center of gravity in almost every scene in which she appears. Even when she does demented, as in the child-hating cartoon villainess in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” or the drab but deranged sexual flytrap of “Entertaining Mr. Sloane,” I always feel that her character’s perspective is the sanest. I trust Ms. Maxwell to show me the world — or the world of a play — as it is.
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