Word: siobhan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worth has been proclaimed "the best actress in the world," though Siobhan McKenna would be my own choice. Still, Worth is indisputably in the top handful, and I have never found her less than impressive whether in classical or modern drama. The performances that she and Eva Le Gallienne gave in the 1957 production of Schiller's Mary Stuart are two of the half dozen supreme feats I have seen an actress achieve on stage...
...prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint Joan. It is possibly no coincidence that the supreme traversal of both Viola and Saint Joan were given, in the late '50s, by Siobhan McKenna...
When Lancelot discovers that he is not the father of his daughter Siobhan he decides his wife Margot must be destroyed by fire and brimstone, his New Orleans home Belle Isle as Sodom and Gomorrah...
...silent...One last question--and somehow I think you know the answer... Will [Anna] join me in Virginia and will she and I and Siobhan begin a new life there...
...Dublin dialect, while invariably musical, is sometimes irritatingly impenetrable. In a troupe that plays well, but not always together, Cyril Cusack stands out as a sly, roguish charmer. Siobhan McKenna, a woman seemingly larger of spirit than any role she fills, makes Bessie Burgess a matron of blood, steel and tears. T.E. Kalem