Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn, in bouffant helmet, conquers 'Haunted'
The play, part of the Brits Off Broadway series currently being hosted by 59E59 Theaters, stars the astounding Niall Buggy and Brenda Blethyn. As Jack and Gladys, the play may have them meandering down a familiar path, but they are both suprising, sometimes even shocking, performances.
Buggy is solid as weak-willed Jack, but Blethyn (whose big break came with her Oscar nomination for the 1997 film Secrets and Lies and whose television debut was in another explosive Mike Leigh drama, "Grown Ups," in 1980) walks away with the show as the more formidable Gladys, who ferociously lashes out against her husband, as well as any woman she thinks might be taking him away from her. More
