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...idea originated with Glenda Hobbs a graduate student in English and a nonresident tutor in South House. For the company's first production the selected Israel Horovitz's Rals, a one act play which was topical when originally performed in 1968, and then held open auditions in South House. Two freshmen and a junior won the three parts (two tats and a baby): none of them have ever done any dramatic work before...
...This is the first time South House has ever had any kind of drama society." Glenda said, "and I didn't know how well it would be able to compete with any of the more established groups, like Dunster House's I wanted a play that would be good enough on its own merits so that it would be successful even if the actors were bad. As it turns out they're really great...
...which she eventually hopes to star. Indeed, despite her busy schedule of comic skits on TV variety shows-she is still a Laugh-In regular-and the concert circuit, Lily considers herself first and foremost an actress, and she hankers to play the heavy dramatic parts of a Glenda Jackson. Jackson seems to have cornered the market on Elizabeth I, but the mind boggles at what Tomlin might do with, say, the hidden humor of Victoria Regina...
...convey all this is a formidable, albeit irresistible, challenge for an actress. Two of the current attempts are strikingly successful. Eileen Atkins turns Vivat, Bolt's ponderous high school history pageant, into exciting drama, with an Elizabeth of coruscating wit and feline sensuality. Glenda Jackson, in Elizabeth R, is more subtle, but equally brilliant, with an astonishing ability to convey mood and nuance and to switch from a purr to a roar. "We are," Elizabeth proudly and accurately proclaimed, "of the nature of the lion...
...many re-creations of the Elizabeth and Mary story arising from coincidence alone. There are several possible reasons why two such lionesses are so popular this year. One of the most important might be the story itself. With its beautiful settings and colorful pageantry, it provides "posh escapism," as Glenda Jackson calls it. "People," she says, "like going back to black-and-white days when people lived their lives by absolute standards." Producers in turn like what audiences like, and they have been quick to jump on the Tudor bandwagon. Vivat, after all, was a hit in London two seasons...