Juliet Stevenson’s voice is one of the most frightening things I ever saw. In April, 2021, with much of New York performance still under pandemic interdict, Simon Stephens’s socially distanced ...

I want to tell women’s stories,” Juliet Stevenson said about the lack of roles for women over 40. An image of a wolf, her inspiration animal, is affixed to her dressing room mirror.

Stevenson and Juliet Garricks, whose drama mainly unfolds offstage. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times It probably needs less. Its themes, constantly broadening, also thin out.