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...attempt to create this balance. Jaffe got entangled in detail. As a result, the movie drags and much of the impact of its frightening theme--the vulnerability of parents to the whims of crazies--is lost. This theme is carried through in its focus on Susan Selky (Kate Nelligan) and her reactions to the mysterious vanishing of her son. But it often gets watered down by the overabundance of minor actions more appropriate to a documentary than a movie of this kind...
This week, when Plenty opens at Broadway's Plymouth Theater, there will doubtless be more gushing. Though the play has flaws, Nelligan seemingly has none. Her performance is so unique, mesmerizing and shattering at the same time, that it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role. She plays Susan Traherne, who as a girl of 17 was dropped behind German lines in France to work as a British courier. The character is never able to recapture the purity of her wartime zeal. As the play follows her through the next 20 years, shifting backward and forward through...
...great role," says Nelligan...
...keys to Nelligan as an actress, says Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater brought Plenty to the U.S., is her "tremendous self-confidence," and that, apparently, is something she has always had. Brought up in London, Ont., where her father worked for the city parks system, she seems to have been bottle-fed selfesteem. "There were six children," she says. "But my mother always made me feel that I would do something important, which stood me in good stead." She cannot remember a time when she did not work hard, and when she was only 16, she entered the University...
...Nelligan describes it, there was no flash of light when she first stood on a stage, no epiphany or dreams of glory. Just the opposite: she was comfortable. "I didn't feel elated or ecstatic, just at home." She wanted to stay in such a pleasant place-the theater, that is. In her second year, she auditioned for London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which was seeing applicants at Yale. She was accepted, but then ran into a problem: insufficient funds...