Lichnaya zhizn' legendy irlandskoy stseny Ketrin O'Dell sama po sebe byla grandioznym teatral'nym predstavleniyem, za kotorym yeye doch', Nora, nablyudala iz-za kulis. I na stsene, i v zhizni mat' vsegda ostavalas' dlya neyo zagadkoy. Spustya gody Nora pishet knigu vospominaniy, v kotoroy pytayetsya ponyat' obozhayemuyu publikoy aktrisu, pokorivshuyu teatral'nyye podmostki Londona i N'yu-Yorka. Zhenshchinu, polnost'yu posvyativshuyu sebya iskusstvu i muzhchinam. Mat', tak nikogda i ne nazvavshuyu docheri imya yeye ottsa. «Aktrisa» glubokoye issledovaniye toy slozhnoy gammy chuvstv, kotoruyu perezhivayut deti vydayushchikhsya roditeley: bol' ot neobkhodimosti delit' mat' s tolpoy i obyazannost' voskhishchat'sya yeyu izdaleka. (Natal'ya Lomykina, literaturnyy obozrevatel' Forbes)

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