Word: lenihan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lark was seen by some 26 million viewers, roughly 125 times the number who saw Actress Harris' 208 Broadway performances, and probably many more than have seen all the Joans (including Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Ingrid Bergman. Uta Hagen. Siobhan McKenna) of the American stage combined...
Saint Joan (by Bernard Shaw*) boasts a title role that is one of the great acting challenges of the modern theater. None of the actresses who have played Shaw's Joan on Broadway-Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Uta Hagen-has left a lasting stamp upon the role. At the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater last week, Irish Actress Siobhan (pronounced Shiv-awn) McKenna brought something a good deal more memorable to it. Her thick-brogued, almost blatantly peasantlike Joan was all drive and no dreaminess. She had an unshakable faith in her voices and her mission because it could never...