| Agreed. I first saw her in Member of the Wedding at the Kennedy Center, and she was a luminous, wiry, grounded Frankie, just about perfect. Then the Serban Cherry Orchard (my own first; life changing experience). Later, she scored in the most difficult role (to my thinking) in David Hare's very difficult The Secret Rapture. She still amazes me with every viewing as the most unsympathetic of the three troubled sisters in Allen's Interiors. Her fearlessness in tackling the gnarly inner lives of edgy, disruptive characters is unmatched. I always include her among those actors who refuse to ask an audience to love or even like them. I've missed her for the last decade, and now am sad indeed to learn of this dark turn in her life. |
