Lynn Redgrave has always been a fine actress and for more than a decade has been giving us most interesting insights`about her famous family in a series of solo shows. Shakespeare For My Father and The Mandrake Root were in depth looks at her famous parents, and they both provided wonderful theatre evenings,but [sad to say] I found her latest solo play Nightingale to be a dissapointment.
This time Ms. Redgrave is talking about the need to create a life for her maternal grandmother, a woman she hardly knew,and [to me] that is the problem with Nightingale.Because she didn't know her well, we never find out why she had this need to make a life for her,and why she was considered to be such a facinating person.
As always, Ms. Redgrave is a master storyteller and and looks as good as ever but her story is not very interesting and after a while becomes boring.
Nightingale is only 75 minutes long but seems longer,and too me this is the problem. Her story just isn't interesting enough to sustain a full evening.
At THE N. Y. CITY CENTER STAGE ONE 131 WEST 55th STREET N. Y. C.
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