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Eleonora Duse, the original 'doozy'
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Eleanora Duse
A Biography
By Helen Sheehy
Knopf. $32.50.
Theater remains an ephemeral art, even in the age of film and
video. Just watch a live performance, then see it in its recorded
form, and you know something precious has invariably been lost in the
sea change from stage to electronic medium. In capturing the artistry
and magic of a stage actress, we are largely at the mercy of such
insubstantial things as the memory of witnesses and the vivid
descriptions of w...
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Eleonora Duse, the original 'doozy'
Chicago Sun-Times
; Eleanora Duse A Biography By Helen Sheehy Knopf. $32.50. Theater remains an ephemeral art, even in the age of film and video. Just watch a live performance, then see it in its recorded form, and you know something precious has invariably been lost in the sea change from stage to electronic medium.
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ELEONORA DUSEBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune
; 00-00-0000 ELEONORA DUSE A BiographyBy Helen Sheehy.Illustrated. 380 pages. $32.50. Alfred A. Knopf. Reviewed by Mel Gussow* Fourteen years younger than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was ''the first modern actor says Helen Sheehy in her new biography. As
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Biography of 'first modern actor' artful, well-researched
Daily Breeze
; THE NEW YORK TIMES ELEONORA DUSE: A Biography By Helen Sheehy (Alfred A. Knopf, $32.50) Fourteen years younger than her great rival, the flamboyantly romantic Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse was "the first modern actor," says Helen Sheehy in her new biography. As such, Duse stressed a subtle but
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The heart of the Mystery: a new biography of Eleonora Duse tells the remarkable life of the first modern actress.(New Books)(Book Review)
American Theatre
; ... lovely at the end of her career as she was when she played Juliet at the age of 14 in Verona. In fact, when Duncan heard the news of Duse's death, the dancer wrote to a friend, Eleonora was the light and inspiration of my art. She was my Madonna, my Beatrice ...
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Lively 'Ladies' can't find exit
Rocky Mountain News
; "Natural is all right, but sublime is always better." Playwright Lillian Groag gives the line to Sarah Bernhardt, but her heart seems to lie with the sentiment as well in the playful frosting that is The Ladies of the Camellias. Layered with bons mots and outsized personalities, the comedy imagines
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Duse's Fever
The Village Voice
; Duse's Fever By Mica Bagnasco Kirk Theatre 410 West 42nd Street 212-279-4200 Italian Ice Skimming the life of a legendary actress World-renowned Italian actress Eleanora Duse allegedly once said, "When we grow old, there can only be one regret-not to have given enough of ourselves." An obsessive,
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THE ACTOR'S GUIDE TO GOOD ACTING
Santa Fe Reporter
; THE ACTOR'S GUIDE TO GOOD ACTING Rima Miller is possessed by Bernhardt's ghost in Duet. "The papers can be very unkind" is one of the many inventive epigrammatic declarations uttered in playwright Otho Esktn's Duet, an exhibitionistic representation of two lives deprived and depraved from a life in
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Lively 'Ladies' can't find exit.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News Natural is all right, but sublime is always better. Playwright Lillian Groag gives the line to ... Beverly Leech, Stephanie Cozart, Monique Fowler and John Hutton. TERRY SHAPIRO / SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
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Mann's Mario and the Magician.(Critical Essay)
The Explicator
; The action proper of Mann's story, the performance by Cipolla, the sinister protofascist magician of the title, is preceded by a number of apparently discrete episodes that serve to situate the first-person narrator and his family in the oppressive atmosphere of totalitarianism. The story takes
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Missing the Essence
The Washington Post
; 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
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