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Fanny Kemble: Audiences
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From the moment she opened her book and began, Fanny was aware of a current flowing between her poet and those who received his message. The current swelled and swirled and carried all before it, until it seemed to erupt in a waterspout of applause. The audience was on its feet, clapping and stamping and cheering, knowing as surely as she did that she had found her place, her pattern, her true calling at last. The London critics were as enthusiastic and grateful as the audience.
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Perhaps McCallum’s most important choice was to have Fanny played by five actresses (Sandi Carroll, Beth Dixon, Laura Jordan, Jenni-Lynn McMillin, and Michele Vazquez). Having five women play Fanny not only dramatized the different Fannys over time but ... captured the numerous emotional angles of each dramatic moment. By limiting emotional investment in the characters and merely suggesting the milieu of the 19th century, the production had the Brechtian quality of compelling the audience instead to think about the issues.
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"I want it to seem to the audience that Fanny was really going through something," he added. "Instead of Fanny explaining what she was going through I wanted the audience to see her figuring things out.”
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