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...grande dame of Broadway, the other a young Yale drama graduate. Colleen Dewhurst and Meryl Streep play mother and daughter in Taken in Marriage, Thomas Babe's barbed comedy about five women preparing for a wedding rehearsal in a small New Hampshire town. Getting ready for this week's opening, Streep took time out to reflect on her craft. "Good acting is opening the doors to that part of the role you see in yourself, and partnering that with your imagination and invention," she says...
...Colleen Dewhurst, L.H.D., actress. Clarence ("Hank") Speight, L.H.D.. chief groundsman. You have appeared out of nowhere on dark, wintry nights to rescue us from snow or ice or loneliness...
Aiding him is a large, name cast. Most memorable is Shelley Duvall as the rock reporter, prey to her own propaganda, who bores and beds Allen. Colleen Dewhurst also has a bit part as Annie's WASP mother, who exults in the ham she serves Allen. And then there is Keaton. She has never been much of an actress--perhaps the funniest scene she ever played was her dramatic revelation in Godfather II that she had aborted Al Pacino's baby. But in Annie Hall she is presentable enough as Allen's WASP counterpart; for once, she and Allen seem...
...resilience of Colleen Dewhurst and the stoicism of Ben Gazzara cope with the killing pressure of acting out that marriage made in hell known as the Strindberg couple? This is the ultimate drama within the drama on the stage of Boston's Shubert Theater...
When Strindberg in all his intensity works, he devastates an audience. When he does not, he devastates the actors. Dewhurst and Gazzara auditioned for The Dance of Death by playing together in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but Edward Albee is to August Strindberg what bitter lemon is to vitriol. Uncharacteristically subdued, the stars struggle with the play as if remembering the lines and holding on to sanity required all their energy. One of the curses of guest-star repertory is insufficient rehearsal time for difficult plays...