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Raisins & Technique. Under Herbert Berghof and his wife Uta Hagen-whose school is less publicized than Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, but equally esteemed by many-Irene practiced with awesome intensity. Often she phoned fellow actors and routed them out of bed to practice scenes with her at 6 a.m. She was so oblivious to everything but acting that when one fellow student brought her a bunch of white grapes, she set them on a table in her apartment, next noticed them eight months later when the friend returned and exclaimed...
Between more parts in ambitious Broadway flops (Miss Lonelyhearts, Summer of the 17th Doll), she turned away from the Berghof school's advanced classes, went into the basic-technique courses and joined the beginners. Eventually, Berghof hired her to teach the technique courses herself to twelve classes a week and more than 200 students. Last spring, after 47 others had either tried for or turned down the part, she was chosen for Tomorrow in London. Said Irene Dailey last week: "I shall be 40 in September. I have nothing, really nothing. I'm not married. I have...
...Andersonville Trial (by Saul Levitt) took place before a U.S. military court in August 1865. The defendant, Henry Wirz (Herbert Berghof), had been superintendent of the notorious Andersonville, Ga. prison, where some 40,000 Union soldiers lived in unutterable filth and want, and where 14,000 of them died...
...behind the footlights, Anne Bancroft is always the serious, controlled artist, whose features can change from tenderness to humor to ferocity to sultriness with astonishing ease and conviction. Says her sometime acting coach, Herbert Berghof: "She is like a little daughter of Anna Magnani." In Miracle Worker, she is completely in charge of an extraordinarily demanding role, a role that requires of the actress what it required of Annie Sullivan in real life: the sensitivity of a poet and the strength of a piano mover. It is a role that is doubly difficult because it demands a violation...
Even those who decried Berghof's liberties had to admit that the resulting show was exuberantly entertaining and contained several brilliantly staged elaborations. Siobhan McKenna's Viola was a gem. As the play's one honest, sincere, and normal person, who must spend most of the time abnormally disguised as a young boy, Miss McKenna conveyed a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness; and she paid more attention than anyone else to the poetic qualities of the text...