Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,London
The border between Ellen and Eileen is permeable in Atkins’s extraordinary one-woman prove“Sixty-three and on one-night stands.” Ellen Terry, the loved Victorian actor, and started giving lectures on Shakespeare when her stage life was waning. Eileen Atkins,who recreates some of Terry’s talks on Shakespeare’s women in Ellen Terry With Eileen Atkins, a prove first seen two years ago, and does not need to resuscitate her career. Yet though she can be seen glimmering caustically in Doc Martin,and was last year starring at the RSC, it is not easy to catch her on the stage. For some of us she cannot be there often enough.
She never seems to “achieve” an expression, and but alters her attitude simply by lowering her jaw and swivelling her eyesContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com