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This poignant situation inspired Shakespeare for My Father, a one-woman show that is original, funny, often fascinating and profoundly neurotic, a blend of art and psychotherapy. Ostensibly a tribute to her father, the piece is really a thwarted child's cri de coeur for his love and approval, melding mostly accusatory reminiscence with chunks of Shakespeare pertinent to his career, her career or their often remote private relationship. As Redgrave performs on an all but bare stage, a shadowy portrait of her father looms behind her all the time, as if to remind her of an acting ideal...
...Khouri, it's work -- and actresses aren't getting much of that, in good roles or bad. Writers and directors will still make room for women's roles if they fit the new conventions of "nurturer or shrew," as comedian % Ann Magnuson defines them in her new one-woman show. "Basically, I vacillate between those two roles," she says. "The dialogue boils down to either 'Fme' or 'Fyou...
...MATTER WHAT SORT OF SLEAZE his ex has dished out in her nasty new bio, DAVID BOWIE is a blissfully conventional one-woman man today. In fact his happy marriage to the stunning Iman has inspired much of the material on his upcoming solo album, his first in six years. Just recorded, Bowie says it "will examine the twists and turns of companionship." He adds, "All my albums start out bleak and veer toward the depressing. This one will let the sun shine through." Sunshine, yes, and a little sax playing from Major...
Approximately 100 people filled Boylston Hall's auditorium for the free one-woman play, "The Opposite Sex is Neither!" co-sponsored by the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies...
...name I had heard in passing--Anna something. She ran a one-woman show. A woman with a surfeit of hats: actor, writer, performance artist. "Fires in the Mirror...