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Drama: An Actor's EducationBut for me, working with him was inspiring, revelatory, and ecstatic fun. He is high on the list of the best directors I have ever worked with, or ever will. He was Mike Nichols. I left Comedians early to begin work on a major Broadway revival of Eugene OБЂ™NeillБЂ™s Anna Christie. The Norwegian star Liv Ullmann was to play the title role. Our director was Josц© Quintero. Josц© could not possibly have been more different from Mike Nichols, but his status in American theater was equally lofty. Where Mike was dry, ironic, and devilish, Josц© was an active volcano of passion. He was a transplanted Panamanian who, years before, had embraced Eugene OБЂ™Neill as a kind of spiritual savior. He directed OБЂ™NeillБЂ™s plays with a Holy RollerБЂ™s messianic zeal (and he directed them nineteen times). He even claimed to converse with the dead playwrightБЂ™s ghost. I was cast opposite Liv as a seagoing Irish coal stoker named Mat Burke. In the play, Anna Christie has come home to her fatherБЂ™s barge, moored at a New York dockside, to leave behind her wretched life of prostitution ...» |
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