Word: piaf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PIAF by Pam Gems...
...magic the theater has to offer. When Jason Robards plays Eugene O'Neill or Julie Harris portrays Emily Dickinson, the evening is transfiguring - both radiantly illuminating and deeply moving. That is what is happening on the stage of Broadway's Plymouth Theater, where Jane Lapotaire plays Edith Piaf as if she is being flayed alive and only the lacerated nerve ends glow in the dark like neon...
...productions-Peter Brook's Marat/Sade and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Homecoming, Sherlock Holmes-exported and expanded from local events to international successes. There are no plans to tour Nicholas Nickleby-the production is too costly and absorbs too much of the company-but Piaf, an intense piece about the French chanteuse, will open in New York this winter, arid The Three Sisters will be taped for TV. Past and present members of the company often turn up on their own in outside productions. Ian McKellen, an actor of formidable power who left the company...
...says, "it's vulnerability or strength. People want to push you one way or another." These four are not averse to a little push. All of them take great, if sometimes contrary, care with their album photos (Benatar's picture makes her look like a black widow Piaf) and, in hallowed Hollywood tradition, Shipley and Foley decline to give their ages. Still, these women give some indication that if they do not find a fresh new direction, they may at least open up a different route...