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But she complemented the Welsh actor who "brings a furious fey playfulness and vulnerability" to his character.

If they are predicting Armageddon the socialist devil is just a little bit too fey to be truly menacing.

Adding to this fey lyricism are Lovelace’s formal choices, including the quasi-Cubist fracturing of each scene into four equal squares that don’t quite align.

While Maren and Lee share the same fey temperament and just-agonized-enough ethics, another secret sharer she meets along the way — a menacing vagabond named Sully, overplayed by Mark Rylance — has no such compunctions.

The house Stoppard shares with his third wife, the charming Sabrina Guinness, is exactly what you would expect: elegant, erudite, fey and library-quiet.