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Rachel McAdams Fights — and Finds — Reality in Mary Jane
Making an impressive Broadway debut, the actress offers a layered depiction of navigating a parenting nightmare.
Lael Jellinek’s set accomplishes this effect by moving upward: As an alarm sensor goes off, indicating that her chronically ill son is experiencing a seizure, the walls of Mary Jane’s modest Queens one-bedroom rise halfway into the rafters, though they don’t disappear from view. You don’t see Alex himself — in the show’s first act, he’s behind the door of a bedroom; in the second, hidden among pillows and stuffed animals on a hospital bed — but you learn the details of the situation from Mary Jane’s conversations with the other women in her life who help care for him. Note an early scene in which, when she’s woken by a nurse in the middle of the night, Mary Jane pauses to admire the way a light-up ladybug toy scatters pinpricks of primary colors over her room.
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