Throw a presidential campaign into the mix, and even the most assured woman could begin to crack under the pressure. After Jonathan Glazer’s weirdly compelling Birth (2004), in which Nicole Kidman believes her dead husband has been reincarnated as a young boy, came the not entirely dissimilar Stephen Daldry film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), in which she played the grandmother of a boy searching for signs of his dead father in the wake of 9/11.Please choose your username under which you would like all your comments to show up. In 1953, she joined the first professional fortnightly rep company in Australia, the Union Theatre repertory company (now the Melbourne Theatre company), and toured with them throughout Victoria, playing Eliza in Pygmalion, for five months.She returned to Australia as Saint Joan at the second Adelaide festival in 1962, and the same year, also in Adelaide, scored a huge success as Nola Boyle, a slatternly wife of an agricultural worker who has an affair with his best friend, in Patrick White’s The Season at Sarsaparilla.She felt that she was going out of style as a classical actor, and so sought a rebirth in Stratford, Ontario; Langham handed her a lifeline with Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Four-time Tony Award–winner Caldwell’s engaging memoir of her apprentice years. Back on Broadway, she had not much more luck with Arthur Miller’s The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and, despite winning those two later Tonys for Medea and Master Class, she began to move to the other side of the footlights as a director.Her movie portfolio is regrettably thin, but she played an imperious dowager in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and popped up in the romantic comedy Just a Kiss (2002). Once they were officially a couple, her feelings for him turned into a “toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.” But for someone with a “natural resistance to chaos,” being the wife of an ambitious politician was no small feat, and becoming a mother along the way added another layer of complexity. Nevertheless, she persisted, graduating from Chicago’s first magnet high school, Princeton, and Harvard Law School, and pursuing careers in law and the nonprofit world. By Zoe Caldwell. As the author amply shows, her can-do attitude was daunted at times by racism, leaving her wondering if she was good enough. Illustrated. She will be interviewed by Cosmin Chivu, Head of the Directing program at Pace Performing Arts (pictured). You can only set your username once.Crucially for Caldwell, the manager of this tour was Elsie Beyer, an associate of the producing management HM Tennent in London, and she arranged a contract with Glen Byam Shaw, the director of the 1958 season at Stratford-upon-Avon. First edition. It’s a difficult play, but Tony Guthrie cut a path through the forest and all we had to do was follow it.” To Zoe Caldwell’s credit are four Tony Awards, an OBE (Order of the British Empire), and a book “I Will Be Cleopatra” published by W.W. Norton. For eight years, we witnessed the adversity the first family had to face, and now we get to read what it was really like growing up in a working-class family on Chicago’s South Side and ending up at the world’s most famous address.