Ms. Ananiashvili carries the ballet by remaining herself.
The urgent question we are left with is this: how is Izolda able to remain herself across all the days and years of dying?
Her book was the first of its kind: a mash-up of Sex and the City, her passion for Louboutin shoes (a reward for surviving chemotherapy) and her determination to remain herself throughout her illness.
The core of a person isn't so easily changed; and, conversely, a person can change a great deal, can navigate her way through extreme circumstances, and still remain herself.
Monique Meunier, however, had the sense to remain herself in all her majestic clarity just as Albert Evans, in the character dances, opted for a powerful, muscular slink without Old World manners.
The decision comes to her, in the dingy pub where the trio have met, as a regenerative union between herself and nature: This was as far as she could come and still remain herself, but her self seemed a small, weak creature, a skin to be sloughed off and left behind.
It's a terrific role, since Moll has all the best jokes, blithely filthy, plus heartfelt speeches on the lousy lot of most working women, and wants nothing but to remain herself, in profit, and at a sane distance from the bourgeoisie.
Haven Audrey Emily Rosee) fights to remain herself in the season finale.
Through it all, she has remained resolutely herself, refusing to be, as she once put it, "a prick".
She may have remained untreated herself.
