No one is having a worse few days, nay weeks, than Linda (Rose Byrne). Her ailing daughter (Delaney Quinn) is not eating enough to meet the ideal weight that will allow her to get the feeding tube removed from her stomach. Her husband is away on a two-month work trip, only popping in for nagging phone calls, berating her for missing group therapy sessions. Her own therapy clients only dump their inane problems on her. Oh, and there’s a hole in her ceiling.
It’s this series of mundane problems that start to snowball until Linda is about to reach her breaking point. And that’s where If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein’s surreal and tense new psychological thriller, holds you in its iron grip, forcing you to feel every new stressor and inconvenience that Linda is experiencing, until you feel like you are about to explode. And through Rose Byrne’s thunderous performance as a woman on the edge of a breakdown, it brings you right to the cusp of that explosion.
