Best Performance by a Minor

The remarkably poised 12-year-old Robin August Fritsch found herself cast in Jennifer Haley’s controversial whodunit The Nether, set in an eerie future world of chemical castration, elf sex and various provocative yet possible virtual realities. Under Jessika Malone’s smart direction, Fritsch matched her adult peers’ moody performances, successfully bringing the audience to the three-way crossroads of digital technology, human desire and morality. MARTIN BRADY

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