Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
#1Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/11/07 at 6:30pm
Classic Stage Company announced its line-up for next season, which will include:
-THE SEAGULL, starring Dianne Wiest as Mme. Arkadina
-RICHARD III with Michael Cumpsty
-NEW JERUSALEM, a new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie.
Some friends of mine saw Wiest in the reading of THE SEAGULL back in January and said she was wonderful. Sounds like a solid season.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107196.html
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#2re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/11/07 at 6:34pmI've seen Wiest several times on stage over the years and she should be a first rate Arkadina. And good for Cumpsty getting a chance to make his way role by role through the entire Shakespearean canon.
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#2re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/11/07 at 6:34pm
Love her !!!!!!! (Can we get some "Birdcage" love??!!!)
Saw her a few weeks ago outside of The AMNH, walking her dogs-
Such a sweet woman !!
#3re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/11/07 at 7:01pmTHE SEAGULL is probably my favorite Chekhov along with IVANOV, I'm quite sad I missed the Meryl Streep-led production hopefully I'll get to see this other production that seems quite promising as well. Wiest is a great actress, ever since I saw her in BULLETS OVER BROADWAY I cannot get enough of her.
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#4re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:20amSo is the West End one not transfering or is this that one?
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#5re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 8:40amI just recently read THE SEAGULL and completely fell in love with that play. I can't wait to see a production.
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Borstalboy
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#6re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 9:01am
Save yer money and go see the possible Broadway transfer with Kristin Scott Thomas!!!
I saw Wiest years ago in IN THE SUMMER HOUSE. She's not as effective onstage as on film.
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#7re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 11:52amLove Dianne Wiest but I've never seen her in a stage production.
#8re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:29pmHer performance in Third two years ago was fantastic.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Auggie27
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#9re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:06pmWell, I was ON stage with her at Arena Stage in the 70s, and she was consistently brilliant. In a small role in ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE she was remarkably focused, and kept working, despite being harranged by Zelda Fichandler (brilliant theatre manager, too cerebral director) Her Arkadina might well have a soupcon of her BULLETS character, no? They are distant cousins, narcissistic actors d'un age certain. Can't wait. Weith SEAGULL, like all of Chekhov, it's all about the quality of the translation, and the commitment to the comedy. The Paul Schmidt translation is my favorite.
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#10re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:37pm
Wiest is divine. I would love to see her do anything.
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#11re: Dianne Wiest to star in THE SEAGULL Off-Broadway
Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:40pm"The world will open to you like an oyster. No... not like an oyster. The world will open to you like a magnificent vagina."
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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