Critical
notices for over
20 Years of Performances
The New York Times
“Miss Currin remains a wonder… Miss
Currin’s voice, body and spirit are completely inhabited by the
small town eccentrics and Gothic demons that haunt the southern imagination
of the writer Eudora Welty.” Frank Rich, 1985
The Boston Herald
“Magnificent … A symphony of names and
phrases and scenes from Welty’s works. Spoken rhythmically over
Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, the words tip off her tongue and
blend like harmonic chords.” Terry Byrne, 1989
Chicago Sun-Times
“Sister has a human glow… Wild and unexpected flashes of emotion
are what Welty is about – and Currin’s blithe and delicate
attack gives them a surprising intensity.” Hedy Weiss, 1985
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A finely detailed and pungently flavored account ….The short
story ‘Why I live at the P.O.’ emerges as a comic tangle.”
William B. Collins, 1988
The New York Post
“An irresistible invitation to share that sweet madness …
Currin’s impersonations of Welty’s vibrant characters take
their life from the musicality of her voice – which roams the scale
in pursuit of a sister’s narcissistic whine and a father’s
patriarchal rumble. But the deeper delight of her characterizations lies
in their mischievous humor and unsentimental brand of humanism.”
Marilyn Stasio, 1980
The New York Times
“The actress has tapped right into the writer’s stream of
consciousness …The words pour out of her like music.” Frank
Rich, 1980
New York Magazine
“Miss Currin looks, move and sounds sovereignly right … Miss
Currin does very well by the jilted suavely rancorous Sister of the post-office
story, who sustains and torments her kinfolk even as she is sustained
and tormented by them.”
John Simon, 1985
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