{"id":7531,"date":"2008-01-01T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2013-02-12T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T20:02:10","slug":"kevin-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7531","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Kline: Lear and Cyrano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"KevinKline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/KevinKline.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/01\/theater\/01kline.html\">King Lear and Cyrano: a comparative study of the performances.<\/a>  It&#8217;s also an appreciation of his long and singular career.  It&#8217;s the observations about what it is that makes certain performances work &#8211; while others do not quite work.  A lovely essay.  I saw Kline opposite Meryl Streep in <i>The Seagull<\/i> and he was fantastic.  The two of them literally rolling around on the floor together, shouting out Chekhov&#8217;s language, beating each other up &#8211; in lust and frustration &#8230; great to see them together again, but not in a movie &#8211; on stage!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Lear and Cyrano: a comparative study of the performances. It&#8217;s also an appreciation of his long and singular career. It&#8217;s the observations about what it is that makes certain performances work &#8211; while others do not quite work. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64177,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions\/64177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}