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THE TIES THAT BLIND.(The Retreat from Moscow)(Theater Review)

The New Yorker

| November 03, 2003 | Lahr, John | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Once upon a time, when my only son was eleven, I leaned over his bed and heard myself say, "Your mother and I are separating." He was silent for a while; then he said, "I don't want your unhappiness." As I left the room, I naively thought, How did he know we were unhappy? This memory, in all its bright grief, came rushing back to me in the middle of "The Retreat from Moscow" (at the Booth), William Nicholson's subtle and powerful evocation of the half-life of a dying marriage.

Resignation--a sort of emotional fog--has settled over the thirty-three-year marriage of an English couple, Edward (John Lithgow), a high-school history teacher, and Alice (Eileen Atkins), ...

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