NEW YORK—The barriers people surround themselves with in an attempt to hide from the truth or avoid feeling too much can be terribly sad. Case in point: the two main characters in David Hare’s “Skylight,” who are trapped in a loneliness of their own making. Directed by Stephen Daldry, this intimate drama is now at Broadway’s Golden Theatre.
In a Northwest London apartment complex in the early 1990s, Kyra (Carey Mulligan), who works as a schoolteacher of inner city children, lives alone in a somewhat less fashionable area of town. One night as she’s settling in with a bath to run and a pile of papers to grade, she’s visited by her former lover Tom (Bill Nighy), a successful restaurateur who recently marked the first anniversary of his wife’s death and is now looking to rekindle his relationship with Kyra.
