Marilyn Stasio Theater CriticStunning performances from Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland humanize Simon Stephens’ new play “Morning Sun,” an earnest if bland love letter to a kind, selfless but fundamentally unremarkable woman.Falco has some emotionally searing moments that left me weak in the knees with admiration for both the writing and the performance.
It’s a pity, maybe even a tragedy, that neither the playwright nor his director, Lila Neugebauer, could sustain that emotional level throughout this drama about a woman so unexceptional that she doesn’t even rate a name in the cast credits.For the record, her name is Charlotte McBride (known as Charley), and she’s one of those unsung saints who give us renewed hope about the.
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