***Is the other poster suggesting that Sigourney Weaver THOUGHT she was giving a naturalistic, verisimilitudinous account of a real actor of a certain age and was embarrassingly unaware of the results seen from the stalls?***
I don't think anyone is suggesting that. I certainly did not mean to, and I think/hope I was clear about that.
Regarding your comments about Nielsen, no, I don't think anyone would describe her performance as "naturalistic," but in my opinion, her style of acting worked beautifully in this play. Same for David Hyde Pierce -- and, I'm sure, Mark Blum -- in a VERY different role. That character is meant to be quiet, reserved, and deeply felt, as you said -- also, not quirky at all. So any comparison of the actors who performed that role with Nielsen seems rather pointless to me. |
