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"Shakespeare in the round!"
Susannah York is one of the preeminent actresses of our time, a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award winner for her searing role in Robert Altman's Images and a star of such high-quality hits as Tom Jones, A Man for All Seasons, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They. In recent years she has been a fixture of Shakespearean stages, having appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Loves of Shakespeare's Women is a one-woman show she conceived and adapted herself, inspired by Sir John Gielgud's The Ages of Man. "Why not an Ages of Women?" she asks. "Passionate women, comic women. Subtle, savage, submissive or scheming women. Young, old, jovial, grieving women. ... I suddenly saw that love itself strings all these women together. Love in its many natures and objects. Romantic love, yes. And family love ... love for your master, for your mistress, for your comrade, your country. Love of power, of God, of fun, of an abstract ideal ... returned love, misplaced love, unrequited love, and love that turns awry. Yes, love is what strings these women on a single thread."
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