Gina Wilhelm Actress - Lynn Redgrave Returns to Ten Chimneys
Lynn Redgrave is set to return to Ten Chimneys in Wisconsin to participate in the national fellowship program for actors there.
There will be a 9-day retreat held at the site starting July 10 focusing on Shakespeare. Redgrave led the masterclasses and retreat last summer and will return this year.
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Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Jane Merrow in Idaho
Gina Wilhelm Actress - Jane Merrow in Idaho
Jane Merrow has been acting for decades, having been on film and television. She finally returns to the stage.
Appearing as Emilia in Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, she's one of the only actors to come to the festival from movies and TV.
Merrow, who comes from a theatrical family, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1968, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her work in "The Lion in Winter," which starred Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
Several famous actors had their feature film premieres in that movie, including Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, and Anthony Hopkins.
She tells of her audition for the movie for Peter O'Toole, who hand picked the cast. During the audition, she read a scene from "Country Dance," in which she was appearing at the time, with O'Toole.
She said the show had been getting great reviews and she thought things were going well in the audition, but they were outdoors, and she had long hair that was blowing in her face.
Suddenly O'Toole said, "I don't believe a thing you're saying." Merrow says she froze.
"I thought, 'Oh, my God, I'm obviously never going to get this part.' They called me back the next day and I was suitably humbled by the great O'Toole."
At the end of "Comedy of Errors," Emilia, played by Merrow, has a touching reunion with her husband Egeon. Each has believed the other dead for decades.
Often this scene is lost amongst the screwball zaniness of the rest of the play, but in this production, it has the weight of a woman returning to her home on stage at long last.
Gina Wilhelm Actress
Jane Merrow has been acting for decades, having been on film and television. She finally returns to the stage.
Appearing as Emilia in Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, she's one of the only actors to come to the festival from movies and TV.
Merrow, who comes from a theatrical family, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1968, she received a Golden Globe nomination for her work in "The Lion in Winter," which starred Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
Several famous actors had their feature film premieres in that movie, including Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, and Anthony Hopkins.
She tells of her audition for the movie for Peter O'Toole, who hand picked the cast. During the audition, she read a scene from "Country Dance," in which she was appearing at the time, with O'Toole.
She said the show had been getting great reviews and she thought things were going well in the audition, but they were outdoors, and she had long hair that was blowing in her face.
Suddenly O'Toole said, "I don't believe a thing you're saying." Merrow says she froze.
"I thought, 'Oh, my God, I'm obviously never going to get this part.' They called me back the next day and I was suitably humbled by the great O'Toole."
At the end of "Comedy of Errors," Emilia, played by Merrow, has a touching reunion with her husband Egeon. Each has believed the other dead for decades.
Often this scene is lost amongst the screwball zaniness of the rest of the play, but in this production, it has the weight of a woman returning to her home on stage at long last.
Gina Wilhelm Actress
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Alex Kingston at the Crossroads
Gina Wilhelm Actress - Alex Kingston at the Crossroads
Actress Alex Kingston is probably best known in the U.S. for her work on the TV show "ER." However, she feels that her best acting work has been in Britain.
As the 46-year-old actress gets closer to 50, she finds herself considering more and more returning to England permanently.
When auditioning in the U.S., she says she frequently will hear the she's exactly right for the part, but they "want to go a little younger."
In fact, when she was written off "ER," she said it was because the producers thought she was too old.
She now says that isn't true; it was a flippant remark made when she was devastated about her role ending.
Nonetheless, while she does still get good roles in the States (returning for the final season of "ER" and playing a lawyer on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"), she still gets her most work in the UK.
There, she played Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Mrs. Bennet in the ITV show "Lost in Austen."
She also says she's the right age to be doing Shakespeare, and she just spent five months in a remote Scottish village filming a new drama for BBC1, "Hope Springs."
However, she says, her 8-year-old daughter, who has grown up in the United States, is happy here, so she's reluctant to leave.
Gina Wilhelm Actress
Actress Alex Kingston is probably best known in the U.S. for her work on the TV show "ER." However, she feels that her best acting work has been in Britain.
As the 46-year-old actress gets closer to 50, she finds herself considering more and more returning to England permanently.
When auditioning in the U.S., she says she frequently will hear the she's exactly right for the part, but they "want to go a little younger."
In fact, when she was written off "ER," she said it was because the producers thought she was too old.
She now says that isn't true; it was a flippant remark made when she was devastated about her role ending.
Nonetheless, while she does still get good roles in the States (returning for the final season of "ER" and playing a lawyer on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"), she still gets her most work in the UK.
There, she played Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Mrs. Bennet in the ITV show "Lost in Austen."
She also says she's the right age to be doing Shakespeare, and she just spent five months in a remote Scottish village filming a new drama for BBC1, "Hope Springs."
However, she says, her 8-year-old daughter, who has grown up in the United States, is happy here, so she's reluctant to leave.
Gina Wilhelm Actress
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