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Lois Smith |
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Lois Smith
American actress Lois Smith, whose career in theatre, film, and television spans five decades, talks about her experience of playing the originally male role, Alcandre, in the Signature Theatre production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, an adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique. She also talks about her upbringing in Kansas; experience in working on the film East of Eden; working with Helen Hayes on The Wisteria Trees and The Glass Menagerie; working with Andre Gregory at the Philadelphia Theatre of the Living Arts at the beginning of the regional theatre movement; doing Chekhov; her experience as a company member of Steppenwolf and performing The Grapes of Wrath as the first American theatre company to play The Royal National Theatre in London; her experience in playing Halie in Sam Shepard's Buried Child; and working with playwright Horton Foote on The Trip to the Bountiful again at Signature Theatre.
Original air date - July 13, 2011
Running Time - 54:37
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