"Lisa Goldstein - Fortune And Misfortune" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goldstein Lisa)

She got called back to her soapтАУthey
wanted her to do a dream sequence with the
man whoтАЩd played her lover. We rehearsed
the scene together, with me taking the
loverтАЩs part.

It was the first time IтАЩd seen her act.
She was good, there was no question of
that, but there was something she lacked,
that spark that true geniuses have. The
envious part of me rejoicedтАУthis woman, I
thought, would not be a threat. But there
was another side of me that regretted she
wasnтАЩt better. I liked Jessie, I wanted to
see her succeed. I felt almost protective
toward her, like a mother toward a child.
She was so innocentтАУI didnтАЩt want her to
get hurt.

I was offered several parts at the
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and began to
make arrangements to go up north. Jessie
was pleased for me, but by this time she
knew me well enough to speak her mind.
"There arenтАЩt going to be any casting
directors up there, Pam," she said. "Those
parts arenтАЩt going to lead to anything.
ItтАЩs an honor, I know that, but it might
be better to stay in town, see what you
can get here."

"I need to stretch myself, see what I can
do," I said. And when she seemed
unconvinced I added, "ItтАЩll look good on
my r├йsum├й."
We rehearsed together again. I had gotten
the part of Emilia, IagoтАЩs wife, in
Othello, and I had her take the other
roles. As we rehearsed I was amazed to
realize that she didnтАЩt have any idea what
the play was about, that she stumbled
speaking the old Elizabethan cadences. I
had thought, na├пvely I guess, that anyone
who wanted to act had had at least some
grounding in the classics.

"So this Iago guy, he wants Othello to
suspect his wife Desdemona," she said.
"HeтАЩs really evil, isnтАЩt he? Do that bit