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The Country Girl
Written by Clifford Odets
Narrated by Stacy Keach, Harry Hamlin and Full Cast
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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One of America's great dramatists rocked the worlds of Broadway and Hollywood in this moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor and Georgie, his long-suffering wife. A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:
Harry Hamlin as Bernie Dodd
Stacy Keach as Frank Elgin
Mare Winningham as Georgie Elgin
Jamie Hanes as Larry
Rick Podell as Phil Cook
Spencer Garrett as Paul Unger
Mandy Siegfried as Nancy Stoddard
Directed by Nancy Malone. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:
Harry Hamlin as Bernie Dodd
Stacy Keach as Frank Elgin
Mare Winningham as Georgie Elgin
Jamie Hanes as Larry
Rick Podell as Phil Cook
Spencer Garrett as Paul Unger
Mandy Siegfried as Nancy Stoddard
Directed by Nancy Malone. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
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Reviews for The Country Girl
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18 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a subtle and restrained exploration of human stagnation, entrenched co-dependence, mutual manipulation and the mechanisms of deceit - with a particular emphasis on the self-deceptive powers of denial, and the polar chasms that lie between who we are, how we are perceived, and how much influence we have over the latter.
The second act's revelatory portraitures deliver (with the above-mentioned subtle economy) an unsurprising irony about perception; the authentic self aware person has the greatest influence over public perception. Put another way, people who deceive themselves (through denial or delusion) have no talent for deceiving others without help from someone credible, someone from the first group. This unwitting collusion yields to the insidious and inextricable co-dependent dynamic that strengthens weaklings and weakens the strong.
Stacey Keach plays the creep with recognizable precision. We've all met this guy (or girl) and many of us are familiar with the insidious and inextricable.
There are no plot tropes, no histrionic showdowns.
There is not so much an emotional crescendo as a learning curve; a satisfying, calming familiar turn.
This work is written with sensitive credibility by someone smart enough to know that the audience is smart enough to know.