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Mischa Barton's Theater Page

This page will be an ongoing tribute to the young actress Mischa Barton with quotes and pictures from the New York Theatrical productions with which she has been involved.

Mischa Barton and Dianne Weist star in Naomi Wallace's Obie Award winning "One Flea Spare" at the Public Theater Shakespeare Festival, Spring 1997.

Playbill Bios

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Mischa Barton and Dianne Wiest


"One Flea Spare"

at the

Public Theater

New York Post
Clive Barnes

"In the key role of the child "Morse" Mischa Barton suggests the image of a marvelously self contained cool......all the performances and roles are worth pondering on.

Variety
Robert Daniels

"He is accompanied by a fearless 12 year old girl, Mischa Barton....In her struggle to survive, the orphaned waif has become a cunning negotiator for scraps of food, and beneath the tattered surface the playwright uses the character as a kind of angel of mercy..... The play is a gloomy dance of death.....Barton provides a chilling account of the last survivor.

The New York Times
Ben Brantley

Morse (Mischa Barton, the appealing young actress from Tony Kushner's 'Slavs!') is a mysteriously intuitive 12 year old who says she is the daughter of the neighbors of the Snelgraves.

Newsday
Linda Winer

...This is an extraordinary work, a dark, morbid, sensual piece of power savvy historical theater....Morse an eerily beautiful 12 year old girl (Mischa Barton) in a dirty fine dress...Snelgrave refers at once to the blunt and hardened little Morse as a flea. She may or may not be the surviving daughter of rich friends, but survivor is the operative word for her. Barton the remarkable young actor seen in Kushner's 'Slavs!', and James Lapine's 'Twelve Dreams' .......she has an unearthly poise and a crisp, perfectly angelic face that makes the girl's unsentimental opportunism - a deadness beyond grief almost unbearable.

The New Yorker
John Lahr

...the precocious and fearless foundling Morse (Mischa Barton), who is the tale's twelve year old narrator, plays guide to the sexually starved lady of the house, Mrs Snelgrave, (the expert Dianne Wiest),and later acts as an angel of mercy, dispatching the infected Mrs Snelgrave with a knife to the heart to save her from the agonies of the lime pit.

CurtainUp

Morse , Mischa Barton, a somewhat surreal, all knowing 12 year old girl ... is at once charming and eerie as the young girl who, despite having lived through some unspeakable horrors, seems to have the resilience for survival...

Aisle Say
David Spencer

The play takes place in the upper class home of Mr William Snelgrave .........their home is invaded by two unexpected visitors seeking refuge, Bunce a sailor and an enigmatic 12 year old girl (Mischa Barton) who may or may not be several things, the daughter of a dead aristocratic neighbor, an opportunist urchin who adopted the dead daughter's identity, an abused child, a sociopathic liar.

Daily News
Howard Kissel

Mischa Barton as the tough little girl has an excellent English accent.... 'Flea' is handsomely designed and hauntingly lit.

New York Law Journal
Martin Gottfried

All the actors are uncannily in tune....Mischa Barton as the little girl Morse...Individually superb, as a team the cast members are utterly harmonious in style, and as that ensemble they perfectly serve the unique purposes of this original,smart and artistic playwright..

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John de Vries   Mischa Barton   DianneWiest   Public Theater

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Barton Caricature from Twelve Dreams

"Twelve Dreams"
by James Lapine

Images courtesy of New York Magazine
Caricature and photograph of Mischa Barton and Harry Groener in "Twelve Dreams" Lincoln Center Theater 1995

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Harry Groener and Mischa Barton

"Twelve Dreams"

at the Lincoln Center

Gannet Newspapers
Jacques le Sourd

Barton, just 9 years old delivered a staggering amount of dialogue in Tony Kushner's "Slavs!" and once again does much of the heavy lifting here. She is an amazing young actress!

The New York Times
Vincent Canby

"Young Ms. Barton who was so fine in Tony Kushner's "Slavs!" has a sweet gravity as the doomed Emma. Emma is an archetype, but she's a somewhat more acceptable archetype than those played by the adult members of the cast.

"Slav's!" by Tony Kushner

Image of Joseph Wiseman, Gerry Hiken and Mischa Barton, New York Theater Workshop 1995

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Slavs! with Joseph Wiseman and Gerry Hiken 

Tony Kushner's "Slavs!"

at the

New York Theatre Workshop

New York Times
David Richards

"But the most eloquent testimony in this curious roundabout play, which opened last night at the New York Theater Workshop, is provided by an eight year old girl (Mischa Barton), who sits, prim and patient, on a chair no bigger than she. She looks like she belongs in a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale. She provides the one touch of poignancy in what is a series of loud, blustery, sometimes funny sketches that Mr Kushner has subtitled "Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness"

New York Magazine
John Simon

"A darling little girl, Mischa Barton, exhibits consummate charm even in delivering the kind of over-wrought rhetoric Kushner has everybody mouthing"

Daily News
Howard Kissel

"Later Kushner has a little girl, adorable enough, but too young to do the next revival of Annie, also discoursing in Marxist-Lenninist slogans.....As for Mischa Barton who plays that little girl, I hope someone is already tutoring her for St Joan"


Mischa's first major Movie Lawn Dogs starring Kathleen Quinlan, Christopher McDonald and Sam Rockwell was released during 1998, it is now available on video and DVD.

Mischa worked on two Blockbuster Movies, both released during 1999.

Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.

The Sixth Sense starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette and Olivia Williams.

All three Titles available on Video and DVD from   

We look forward to seeing this wonderful young actress in a variety of motion picture roles during

the year 2000,

'Pups',  'Skipped Parts',  'Paranoid',   'Tart',  and  'Frankie and Hazel'  a Showtime TV Production.