Missing the Essence

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 1, 1987| Author: Megan Rosenfeld | Copyright information

There is an unavoidable problem when impersonating a legendary actress like Eleonora Duse, as Dorothea Hammond is doing in a one-woman show that opened at the New Playwrights' Theatre this week. That is, unless you can give some sense of her greatness as a performer, the soul of the woman remains elusive.

Indications can be offered, of course-she was Italian, she was given to "extravagant emotions," she was born to a theatrical family-and these Hammond supplies in an hour and 45-min...

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