Vanessa Redgrave has arrived week at the National Theatre in the acclaimed Broadway stage version of Joan Didion’s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
It has been a while since Redgrave, that stalwart of pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist causes, has sounded off about the subject she holds so dear to her heart.
Fellow Broadway star Tovah Feldshuh, who in June arrives in London with Golda’s Balcony — another acclaimed one-woman-show from New York — has a theory why.
“I’m very friendly with Lynn [Redgrave, Vanessa’s sister] and I’ve seen Vanessa, but we do not discuss politics,” Feldshuh told Notebook recently. “Vanessa has been very quiet in my country. She’s changed her persona in New York. Somebody sat her down — somebody must have — and stopped her being so vociferous about it [the Middle East]. Because it was extremely unpopular.”
