Zoe Caldwell Comes To Barnes And Noble 4/22

Join author Mary Z. Maher and four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell for an evening devoted to the art of performing Shakespeare. Actors Talk About Shakespeare is an enlightening collection of Mary Maher's interviews with Shakespearean actors such as Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Stacy Keach, and more. She will talk about the acting secrets revealed in her book and interview Zoe Caldwell, who has performed in and directed many Shakespeare plays and who appeared as Lady Macbeth in the 1961 TV movie. This is a rare opportunity to meet an esteemed Shakespeare actress and ask questions to get her perspective on performing what can be the most challenging and the most rewarding scripts of all time.

About the Book
In her years of researching Shakespeare's texts, Mary Z. Maher has encountered many discussions of scholars attempting to define what each character's words mean, but she also knew that performance alters the shape and meaning of each spoken line. The only way to solve these continuing speculations was to go and ask each actor what factors determine how s/he says a particular line and why. And from these questions, Actors Talk About Shakespeare emerges. This book speaks to theater patrons, to actors both novice and experienced, and to educators who teach Shakespeare. Each chapter profiles a career in context, using the actor's words along with
supporting research material. The result is a treasure of talents, tactics, and tales from veteran performers who return often to Shakespeare from careers in film and television.

About Zoe Caldwell
Caldwell began her professional stage career in her native Australia with the Union Repertory Company and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust in her youth. In 1958, at age twenty-five, she was invited to England to Stratford-upon-Avon to perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played Bianca in Paul Robeson's Othello, Cordelia in Charles Laughton's King Lear, and Helena in All's Well that Ends Well with Dame Edith Evans. Caldwell won her first of four Tonys in Tennessee Williams's Slapstick Comedy in 1966 (followed by The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1968, Medea in 1982, and Master Class in 1996). In 1970 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire, concurrent with a successful Broadway career that included leading roles in Colette, Lillian, Dance
of Death, and Long Day's Journey into Night. In 1998 she received the Golden Quill Award for excellence in acting Shakespeare. Caldwell's directing credits include productions of Richard II at the Stratford Festival; Othello with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones; The Taming of the Shrew at Stratford, Connecticut; and Macbeth in New York. She has considerable television credits on CBC, BBC-TV, and American television. She has also held the Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University.

Mary Z. Maher is the author of the performance classic Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies and the biography Nicholas Pennell: Risking Enchantment, as well as several articles on Shakespeare in performance on stage, film, and television. After a teaching career at the University of Arizona, she retired as professor emerita to the home of the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival and continues teaching, coaching, lecturing, and writing.

Thursday, April 22 at 7:30pm Barnes and Noble- Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway, New York City (66th Street and Broadway)Free and open to the public

October 2009 $18.99 ISBN: 978-0-87910-364-4
Paperback Original
235 pages, including 12 b&w photos
Limelight Editions, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation

Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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