A veteran of the stage who also had a long list of film and TV credits, she was best known for playing characters who were worldly wise and world-weary.
Drury University Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, Haddy Kreie.
“Briefly, it s about a couple who s lost a child to a drowning incident. And it s really about them sorting through their grief, and how a relationship can disintegrate in the face of grief; also, their attempts to reconcile that and to come to terms with a new future and with the remaining child who s left behind as well.”
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell whether the child in the drowning incident is dead or alive, although the character never appears in the play. Haddy Kreie attributes the ambiguity to the way Jenny Schwartz has written the script. “The play is written in a way that utilizes language to an absurd degree. So there s a lot of lack of clarity, which is part of the traumatic experience. And so she s really exploiting, I think, the way our language falls apart, and our inability to sometimes see the truth when we re facing impending or past trauma.”
Plummering the Depths of Words Posted on Feb 5, 2021 in Interviews
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There is a defining moment in Harold Pinter’s ”No Man’s Land” – a word, really that betrays Christopher Plummer’s unbridled passion for the written text.
Playing a shabby wannabe poet, he is taking his leave of Jason Robards in an imperious huff, bundling up against the bitter cold and blathering on in a torrent of lofty verbiage. When he hits the last word of his speech “nonchalance” he flings a scarf across his shoulder and heads grandly for the exit. This occurred nearly 19 years ago in a Roundabout theatre no longer standing, and the memory of it “nonchalance,” squeezed dry of all its French juice and pretention is with me still.
Cicely Tyson, the stage, screen and television actress whose vivid portrayals of strong African-American women shattered racial stereotypes in the dramatic arts of the 1970s, propelling her to stardom and fame as an exemplar for civil rights, died on Thursday. She was 96.
Her death was announced by her longtime manager, Larry Thompson, who provided no other details.
In a remarkable career of seven decades, Ms. Tyson broke ground for serious Black actors by refusing to take parts that demeaned Black people. She urged Black colleagues to do the same, and often went without work. She was critical of films and television programs that cast Black characters as criminal, servile or immoral, and insisted that African-Americans, even if poor or downtrodden, should be portrayed with dignity.