"At key points," says Freeman, "they had to give Rose a verbal thumbs up."įences continues at the Everyman Theatre, 1727 N. FENCES MONOLOGUE FULLA sigh, an amen, an empathetic "mmm-hmm." Last week the theater was full of Western High School girls, and they cheered and stamped their feet. Women in the audience have received Rose's monologue with an array of audible affirmations. For all the reasons mentioned above, she says, she's grateful "I didn't realize it was a standard." "There is an onus on any actress who's going to do that speech," says Vincent Lancisi, Everyman Theatre's artistic director.įreeman says she'd heard about the Rose monologue before she was cast. Cagle corrected himself right away, but folks on Twitter didn’t let him get off too easy. This time, it was People’s editorial director, Jess Cagle, who made the unfortunate flub. Then there's the pressure on a performer working in the shadow of some famous actor's rendition of a famous speech. On Sunday, Hidden Fences returned at the Oscars. Audience members are apt to have heard it before and be especially critical about interpretations. She wasn't finding it."įamous dramatic monologues after a while become like familiar songs or musical compositions. "It was a challenge for her to get to the rage that I wanted to see. "Aakhu is a very thoughtful and peaceful person," says Nelson. When Rose goes so far as to lash out physically, it's only in the sheer frustration of never really being heard or seen. The speech is some parts lamentation, some parts fury and shock. "I just had to keep saying it, to find out what the truth of it was," says Aakhu Freeman, the Washington actress who plays the part. I gave everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn't the finest man in the world." And it didn't take me no 18 years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never going to bloom. She has thought about other men, she says, but she stayed: "I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. I gave 18 years of my life to stand in the same spot with you."
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