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Orpheus Descending (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Orpheus Descending' is a 1990 American television film starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Peter Hall. It is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play of the same name. Hall had directed Redgrave in an acclaimed[http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=950DEFD8133BF936A1575AC0A96F948260 Review/Theater; Vanessa Redgrave in 'Orpheus': Matching Artistic Sensibilities] New York Times. 25 September 1989[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/mar/07/best-performance-imogen-stubbs Orpheus Descending] The Guardian. 7 March 2010 Broadway production of the play a year earlier.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4245 Orpheus Descending] Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved on 5 September 2010 The stage actors such as Redgrave, Kevin Anderson and Brad Sullivan reprised their roles for the film.
Plot
Lady Torrance (Redgrave) is introduced as a disillusioned character; her Sicilian father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and she's been trapped in a miserable marriage for 20 years. Her tyrannical and bigoted husband is struck down by cancer. Then Lady Torrance meets the orpheuse, a young man named Val Xavier (Kevin Anderson), an Elvis Presley-inspired drifter. A romantic entanglement ensues as Lady Torrance puts behind the misery of marriage behind her and tries to find passion and happiness with Val.
Cast
*Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance
*Kevin Anderson as Val Xavier
*Brad Sullivan as Jabe Torrance
*Anne Twomey as Carol Cutrere
*Miriam Margolyes as Vee Talbott
*Sloane Shelton as Beulah Binnings
*Patti Allison as Dolly Hamma
*Manning Redwood as Sheriff Talbott
*Pat McNamara as Pee Wee Binnings
*Michael McCarty as Dog Hamma
*Marcia Lewis as Nurse Porter
References
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