![]() ![]() Zola’s sordid novel of adultery and murder occasionally turns up as a curious required-reading assignment in some 19th-century literature classes, but it’s high time it was permanently put to rest. Knightley’s appearance in the title role. Translated numerous times from the original French in plays, films, television soaps and even a real opera-never with any commercial success-this old warhorse doesn’t make a very solid argument for the risky revival currently onstage at Studio 54 as part of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50th New York season, and I’m sorry to add that nothing remotely beneficial has been added by Ms. Instead, she has chosen to make her Broadway stage debut in a perversely stagnant and relentlessly boring stage version of the ossified 1867 Émile Zola melodrama Thérèse Raquin. Movie actress Keira Knightley, best known for her roles in film adaptations of stodgy costume epics ( Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina), was such a breath of fresh air when she helped crack the Nazis’ secret World War II Enigma code in the terrific Imitation Game that I was hoping for more contemporary roles. ![]() ![]() Keira Knightley, left, with Judith Light. ![]()
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