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More damagingly, it doesn’t seem as if Hnath’s Nora has evolved all that much from the skittishly coquettish wife of Ibsen’s play.

She crooned his name in a coquettish melisma, inviting him to “tell me how you want me, you look like you want it” while he melted into a puddle.

"There's this coquettish kind of bravery I discovered in my teens, a thrill at being the first person to engage a romance," she explains.

And Burns nearly steals the second act in her brief solo, “Memory,” a coquettish dream of past flames.

Shy, bold, coquettish or mocking, a woman’s smile is richly signifying, something that Wilde, an actress turned director, certainly knows.