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Bridge Street Theatre, November, 2021

"Roxanne Fay as Mary is both fragile and forceful. She is not a mad-woman as I have seen her played before. She keeps Mary totally rational, a woman who knows what her mistakes are and why she makes them. She manages to show pride while going down into herself, searching for both answers and relief.  Her very occasional flares of emotion outside of her devotion to the three men in her life are exciting, brief as they are. Fay has done nice work in the past with this company, but in this play she delivers a performance that will not be forgotten. She and Sowle have created an antidote to the Katherine Hepburn portrayal and it is  one that future actresses undertaking this devastating portrait should profit from."

*J. Peter Bergman (Berkshire Bright Focus)

"Fay stands out as Mary Tyrone, matriarch of a ruined family that Eugene O'Neill modeled after his own for his finest play, written in 1941.

O'Neill's challenges for actors are significant, requiring quick emotional changes that could go wrong or feel false in so many ways. For instance, Mary, momentarily deluding herself that Edmund has a "summer cold," not tuberculosis, in the very next sentence wails that she doesn't want him to die; the different mental states are separated by only a period, a dot of punctuation, and yet from Fay the switch is wholly believable."

 Steve Barnes (Albany Times Union)