ON STAGE DRAMA
ON STAGE DRAMA
Figaro2
Chorus Member Joined: 4/8/08
#1ON STAGE DRAMA
Posted: 9/23/08 at 3:13pm
HELLO ALL
Just remembered a lovely memory and thought i would share with you all.
went to see Three Sisters at the Queens Theatre, London 1990, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave and Jemma Redgrave, i absolutely love Vanessa....there was a scene with Jemma as Irena carrying a lamp, with a huge glass top, lit candle inside.she stumbled and the lamp fell and smashed, Jemma looked horrified, Vanessa casually walked off stage and collected a broom, she basically waltzed with the broom sweeping up the glass, hugging Jemma as she did, laughing, smiling, making the sweeping up of the broken lamp as though it had been scripted, it was pure theatre, beautiful and real. swept the lamp offstage.Wow I was mesmorised. I think the audience clapped because we realised this was watching a theatre legend make something awful into something beautiful and special. For all of those that were there Vanessa was a luminous beauty who performed ballet with that brush and broken glass.Magical.
Anyone else witnessed a mistake made good ?
