Sunday, November 01, 2009
Lynn Redgrave, Examining a Life Worth Staging
NYTimes.com: "LYNN REDGRAVE, sitting with her dog, Viola, in her bouquet-filled dressing room at the Manhattan Theater Club, was describing the exact moment in 2003 that she jettisoned her inner critic and fearmonger. She needed to draw on that newfound clarity and peace this year: “Nightingale,” her introspective one-woman play about her grandmother, opens here on Tuesday, she is coping with the recent death of her niece Natasha Richardson, and she herself just underwent treatments at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center."
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Redgrave has done a great job with coping with her illness. There are many people that are coping with Stage I cancer, and are almost completely shut down. They use the disease as an excuse for why they're so depressed, etc... Redgrave has continued to work, and hasn't let her Stage IV cancer get her down, at least visibly.
My question refers to her profession. Does the fact that she is a gifted actress have to do with the fact that she is able to deal with her illness? Because she has to understand so many different types of people able her to understand her personal journey through cancer? Does it help her to cope? What would have been different if she was a director? Or a designer? Do the qualities that allow an individual to hold a certain job define how those people react to challenges?
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