Scarlett Johansson was very good in the role. Nothing I had seen here in before led me to expect she could pull off a role as demanding as this. In the first act, where you're going to grab the audience or lose it, she has at least 90% of the dialogue, which is quite a burden to put on someone with little Broadway experience. But I felt she carried it well. She is a little younger than ideal for the role of a woman with a worn-out husband and marriage who is feeling extreme pressure to have a child, but not by a lot, and it wasn't a fatal flaw.
Also, the direction was very thoughtful. I half-expected that her performance would be tarted up to make something sensational to draw at the box office, but the actress and director seem to have made a conscious effort to go in the opposite direction and taken what I thought was a very thoughtful approach to the play, that really fleshed out its exploration of truth - truth of what you say, being true to yourself, and being true, in the sense of being fiercely loyal, to someone else.
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