BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
It always is a thrill to watch the great Vanessa Redgrave apply her personal witchcraft to a play, no matter what its quality as drama.
An otherwise so-so character study, “The Revisionist” allows Redgrave to bring an elderly Polish woman vividly to life and she does so with abundant charm and artistry.
What’s more, the audience gets to see Redgrave do it up close and personal because the Cherry Lane Theater, where the new play premiered on Thursday, holds only 180 seats.
Redgrave co-stars with Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote this 100-minute drama that unfolds in a small, cluttered apartment in a port city in Poland. That is where Maria (Redgrave) hosts David (Eisenberg), a distant cousin from America. Maria lost virtually all of her European family in the Holocaust when she was a girl, so she is eager to spend time with David.
