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...ORPHEUS DESCENDING (TNT, premiering Sept. 24). Vanessa Redgrave dazzled London in a 1988 revival of Tennessee Williams' 1957 flop. Playing an Italian- American misfit in a small Southern town, she was less rapturously received in the subsequent Broadway production (the basis for this film). Still, her over-the-top performance fascinates...
...ORPHEUS DESCENDING. In this gothic erstwhile flop by Tennessee Williams, brilliantly reconsidered by director Peter Hall, Vanessa Redgrave returns to Broadway for the first time in twelve years and proves herself to be the greatest actress in the English-speaking world...
...same haunted, haunting look is hers in the role that has brought her back to Broadway after an absence of a dozen years: the thickly accented daughter of an Italian immigrant in the steamy Southland of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending, which opened last week. The production, by Sir Peter Hall, former artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and Britain's National Theater, was a hit in London in December. Yet it took a risky struggle to transfer the show. Redgrave is a fervid member of a radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much...
Happily, thus far Orpheus has met no protest, according to co-producer Elizabeth McCann. Says she: "Redgrave is controversial, and controversy brings a certain degree of risk. I'm not kidding myself that there aren't people out there still deeply hurt or offended by her views...
...LYRE OF ORPHEUS by Robertson Davies (Viking; $19.95). The third novel in a trilogy about the life and aftereffects of an eccentric Canadian millionaire. An engaging plot involving high finance, grand opera and a voice from Limbo...