undercast

In its first-ever performances here, Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” was undercast.

One: a dark comedy starring the perennially undercast Anna Faris as a recovering alcoholic and single mother revisiting a fraught relationship with her own recovering addict mother, played by the always impeccable Allison Janney.

The supporting actors are all fine, if occasionally undercast.

She has always been a good actor but has often been slightly undercast, playing to the natural strengths of her distinctive crackling voice and witty face: she is a shoo-in for any Restoration drama.

Undercast, un′dėr-kast, n. an air-passage crossing a road in a mine by means of an air-tight box or channel beneath it.