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‘Completely staggering’: how Shirley Henderson mastered Like a Rolling Stone
In Girl from the North Country, Bob Dylan’s songs fuelled a tale of 1930s America. Todd Almond, who starred in the play on Broadway, revisits one of its most electrifying numbers in this extract from his oral history of the show
[Henderson’s character] Elizabeth Laine is a hard woman scraping by during the Great Depression and suffering early onset dementia. She’s been sitting at her regular perch, an old wicker chair downstage right, and after a tense scene between Mr Burke, Elias and the preacher, Reverend Marlowe, she stands, grabs an old-fashioned microphone, faces directly upstage, her back to the audience, and sings to no one. ‘She was this kind of feral creature’ … Shirley Henderson as Elizabeth Laine in Girl from the North Country at Noël Coward theatre, London.
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