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THE TIES THAT BLIND.(The Retreat from Moscow)(Theater Review)
Once upon a time, when my only son was eleven, I leaned over his bed and heard myself say, "Your mother and I are separating." He was silent for a while; then he said, "I don't want your unhappiness." As I left the room, I naively thought, How did he know we were unhappy? This memory, in all its bright grief, came rushing back to me in the middle of "The Retreat from Moscow" (at the Booth), William Nicholson's subtle and powerful evocation of the half-life of a dying marriage.
Resignation--a sort of emotional fog--has settled over the thirty-three-year marriage of an English couple, Edward (John Lithgow), a high-school history teacher, and Alice (Eileen Atkins), ...
- Eileen Atkins quickens slow 'Retreat'.
- News wire article from: United Press International November 13, 2003 700+ words
...Acclaimed British actress Dame Eileen Atkins is making one of her occasional...history and religion, and Alice, his eccentric, wittily acerbic...the wrong train" when he met Alice and wants to retreat from his...continually criticize him as Alice does, and he wants to marry...
- The Atkins method; DAME EILEEN ATKINS didn't get where she is today by playing...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) May 7, 2005 700+ words
Byline: MARY RIDDELL Dame Eileen Atkins does not do frivolous. Given...herself for their amusement. Eileen Atkins was born into a workingclass...clubs. Her business card read: Eileen Atkins, Soubrette and Dancer, and...
- Eileen Atkins, Reveling In the Habit of Freedom
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Elizabeth Kastor May 15, 1994 700+ words
...slightly beaks the nose, and widens the nostril," says Eileen Atkins. She looks into the mirror in her Arena Stage dressing...and moves on to the eyes, the mouth, the skin. Eileen Atkins does not, in truth, look much like Virginia Woolf...
- Eileen Atkins and Imelda Staunton will star in "Them Came a Gypsy Riding," the...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Cox, Gordon October 2, 2006 700+ words
Eileen Atkins and Imelda Staunton will star in "Them Came a Gypsy Riding," the new play by Frank McGuinness ("Someone Who'll Watch Over...
- Drama queen; Dame Eileen Atkins' life has been more densely plotted than any of...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) April 7, 2005 700+ words
Some people think Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party is heavy going. Dame Eileen Atkins considers it light relief. True, Lindsay Posner's Birmingham Rep revival of the 1958 drama, which opens at the Duchess Theatre...
- CULTURE: A very English actress; Dame Eileen Atkins is one of Britain's most...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) March 9, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Terry Grimley We would all prefer to avoid dying of cancer, but for Dame Eileen Atkins it's becoming something of a professional challenge. A year ago she returned from America, where she had been in a highly successful...
- Eamonn: Man of the People: Dame Eileen Atkins.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The People (London, England) May 8, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Eamonn Holmes AT 70 years of age Dame Eileen Atkins is a fine looking woman for her age. But why did randy actor Colin Farrell try to pull her? Dame Eileen may have all the right...
- Atkins in for Jones without 'Doubt'.(Eileen Atkins cast for play 'Doubt',...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Cox, Gordon October 18, 2005 700+ words
Eileen Atkins is a sure thing for "Doubt." She will take over for Cherry Jones in John Patrick Shanley's Tony--and Pulitzer-winning...