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Alexs father has left the picture.
Mary Jane is barely holding down a job as an administrative assistant to cover the health insurance.
It asks a lot, specifically, of the actress playing Mary Jane.
Rachel McAdams turns out to be more than up for the task.
McAdamss take helps draw out the arc underneath the surface of Herzogs chain of one-on-one conversations.
I was struck, at the end of the play, by her haunted stillness.
The conceit creates echoes between the characters, which adds to the mirror-world quality of the hospital scenes.
In Mary Janes conversation with Pourfars character, Chaya, Herzog arrives at a kind of thesis.
Everything I have been doing, that was very nice, but it wasnt real, Chaya says.
And its a relief, thats what it is, its a relief to get back to it.
The hospital, that underworld, was all there was.
Mary Janeis at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
