'Tallulah,' in Full Flower; Kathleen Turner Re-creates A True Southern Original

The Washington Post | November 9, 2000| | Copyright

A tigress plays a tigress, a star plays a star, and, most gratifyingly, a dame plays a dame in "Tallulah," a one-woman show starring Kathleen Turner that opened Tuesday at the Morris Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore. Sandra Ryan Heyward's script isn't all there yet, but it's snappy--and Turner rides the central role like a motorcycle mama on a Harley.

"[Expletive] Marlon Brando, just [expletive] him, I mean it!" is Miss Bankhead's first line. She is on the phone in her boudoir (which seems to have at least four of them), a swoony art deco vision in mauve by Derek McLane, complete with round bed ...

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