Love, Light, Joy, Legend: The Unparalleled Tina Packer

AMERICAN THEATRE: Tina’s hand was on my belly, shooting love and light into any holding patterns that I had attempted to install there as my personal, self-preserving semblance of control. It was 1979, and I was 20 years old, at the beginning of my path as a young actress. But the thoughts and feelings of King Lear were suddenly mine to infuse with a world of personal meaning and resonance. I exploded into words and inhabited the role.