New Jersey Stage Issue 68 | Page 89

Emma SHARE BUTTON A few years back, Anya Taylor- Joy delivered a striking per- formance in Thoroughbreds, a blackly comic teen thriller in which she played a spoilt rich kid who takes a troubled young girl (played equally brilliantly by Olivia Cooke) under her wing. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 68 by Eric Hillis The dynamic was reminiscent of that between Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith, the young central characters of Jane Aus- ten’s 1815 novel ‘Emma’. With first time director Autumn de Wilde at the helm, Taylor-Joy has returned directly to the source INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 89