She was a brilliant, radiant Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT at Stratford Ontario in 1972, the best I’ve ever seen. During the same season she played Regan in KING LEAR with William Hutt, and it was the most outrageous performance: manic, delirious, totally at odds with the otherwise sober production, an un-Lear-like hoot.
More than 20 years later I met her at a party and told her how much I loved her Rosalind. Of course she concluded I was a very perceptive person. “I also saw you in KING LEAR,” I said, and she let out a shriek that startled everyone nearby. “You didn’t!” she said as she hid her face. “Tell me you didn’t! Ohgodohgodohgod!” |
