An affecting, inspiring memoir, I Will Be Cleopatra serves as an imperative information for any reader who needs to realize a clearer perception into Shakespearean theater, and will probably be probably the most necessary books for actors and theater enthusiasts for future years.
This is a riveting account of a decided but modest lady who become one of the vital prime classical and Broadway actors of our time, operating with such luminaries as Paul Robeson, Laurence Olivier, and Tennessee Williams. Born the daughter of a plumber and a taxi dancer in Australia at the peak of the Nice Melancholy, younger Zoe Caldwell first gave the impression at the level at the age of 9 in Melbourne in Peter Pan. So dyslexic that performing was once the one manner she felt she may just keep in touch, Caldwell become a attempted and precise skilled by way of the age of fourteen, acting at the radio. Quickly she was once taking part in roles beneath the mythical Elsie Beyer, who despatched her to Stratford-on-Avon the place she started a Shakespearean occupation that may culminate in her portrayal of Cleopatra, the Bard’s biggest feminine position.
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