Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt strike unusual sparks in Heisenberg
Adam Feldman
October 13, 2016: “Do you find me exhausting but captivating?” asks Georgie in Simon Stephens’s sweet, surprising Heisenberg. Since she is played by Mary-Louise Parker, at full quirky tilt, the answer is a resounding yes on both counts. The object of Georgie’s initially unwelcome affection is Alex (a lovely, understated Denis Arndt), a stranger more than 30 years her senior, whose neck she kisses in a London train station. It is hard to discern her motives, because she surrounds herself in a hurricane of self-conscious verbiage that alternates between brutal honesty and pathological lies. But if she’s crazy, she’s also a fox, and Alex—an introverted butcher and lifelong bachelor—can’t resist her for long.
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