
How well the film succeeds as a psychological shocker can be gleaned from the response of a rambunctious audience with whom this reviewer attended a sneak preview: They weren’t having it.

Much of what Eden Collinsworth has to tell us is not new information, but she has ingeniously positioned her narrative as a Plutarchian fable, with Richard Garnett, keeper of the papers at the British Museum, employed as Woodhull’s foil.
The show could still use some work, but it has a compelling subject and decent bones, and both are well served in this production.


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