KATHLEEN CHALFANT On "A DELICATE BALANCE" at Arena Stage

Actress Kathleen Chalfant, perhaps best known for her role as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson’s Wit (winning her numerous awards including an OBIE), began her career in New York in 1972. She has played an astonishing range of roles written by playwrights such as Jules Feiffer, Christopher Durang, Eve Ensler, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett and Tony Kushner (Angels in America earned her a Tony nomination). She is in town to portray Agnes in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now in production at Arena Stage.

In an Arena Stage interview, Ms. Chalfant described the playwright: “I admire Albee’s writing deeply. There is never a false word. Albee’s language carries an actor rather than the other way around. His language is the roadmap which leads me, the actor, into the world of the play.” Here, we investigate the world of A Delicate Balance, and the life of this celebrated actress. Our interview with Edward Albee will appear shortly.


Katheleen Chalfant on A Delicate Balance at Arena Stage

I think there are enough people on this board who regularly attend performances in both cities to justify posting this in both places. I know a lot of NY'ers who are as interested in DC theatre as there are DC'ers interested in NY.

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eh?

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Any time an actress like Kathleen Chalfant is interviewed about a production she's doing anywhere, it's of interest to at least some of us here. People post about London shows here, don't they? Why shouldn't people post things relating to shows in D.C., especially when it concerns a production of a great American play cast with actors (in addtion to Chalfant, Terry Beaver and Ellen McLaughlin) who are known to New Yorkers?