Dame Helen Mirren is worthy of the Epidaurus
It is just before midnight and Dame Helen Mirren is wiping deathly pale make-up off her face and brewing a cup of tea in a bare dressing room in the middle of a Greek wood. A path leads up through the pine trees to the extraordinary 2,400-year-old amphitheatre of Epidaurus, where the National Theatre’s production of Racine’s tragedy Phèdre is the hottest ticket of the summer festival season. Mirren is arguably the biggest international star to perform at the 11,000-seat theatre since the opera singer Maria Callas in the 1960s, and she is once again playing a queen, albeit a rather more expressive one than her Queen Elizabeth II, for which she won an Oscar in 2007. But there is nothing regal…
from WN.com – Entertainment News
