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...been very few of those since Kline landed in New York in 1970, a drama student at the Juilliard School under John Houseman. As a member of the drama department's first class, which also included William Hurt and Patti LuPone, he played the lead in classics of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen. Good parts came easily after school too. One of the last roles he remembers not getting is the marine biologist in Jaws. "I remember I told Spielberg at my audition that I knew a marine biologist and he could really help," Kline recalls. "Spielberg said, 'You know...
This fall Kline will return to the theater. He will take the title role in David Hare's adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov at Lincoln Center, a 10-minute cab ride from his apartment. As we made our way through Manhattan traffic one recent afternoon, I asked Kline if there had ever been a movie role he wished he'd been offered, foolishly imagining that he might occasionally fantasize a more Harrison Ford-like career trajectory. "When I saw John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons," Kline says, "I have to admit I felt some envy about that part. I went right...
McTeer (who has done Shakespeare and Chekhov on the London stage and has played Vita Sackville-West in PBS's Portrait of a Marriage) is a tall, imposing-looking blond, which makes her wifely submissiveness early in the play all the more grotesque. Flapping her hands and giggling nervously, she is hardly able to contain her energy--and, indeed, seems ready to fly apart as an old transgression (she once forged a signature to acquire a loan) threatens to unravel her pat little marriage. Yet a freezing calm overtakes her in the final confrontation with her husband Torvald, in which...
...Carter, Nigel Hawthorne--for his Twelfth Night. A comedy of Eros about loving twins separated in a shipwreck and embroiled in a game of mistaken sexual identity, the piece now begins as an upmarket Blue Lagoon, veers into elaborate farce, then darkens till it seems a lost work of Chekhov's. It's a handsome artifact, though, on its $5 million budget, and gives star treatment to Imogen Stubbs, who is Nunn's wife. "It's a welcome break from the American kind of film realism," she says of Twelfth Night. "When acting onscreen, you're often asked...
Nice, no. Soulfully conflicted, surely. Neeson grew up Catholic in a small, rural hamlet in Northern Ireland. As a teenager he was torn between a passion for boxing and a love of theater. The world of Chekhov won out in the early '70s, when Neeson joined Belfast's repertory Lyric Players and then graduated to the renowned Abbey Theater in Dublin. There he first tackled drama that dealt with his country's fractious history--in his words, "a lot of Sean O'Casey." (The apolitical Neeson, however, still knew almost nothing about Collins when he came to the role...