Kathleen is currently rehearsing to play Mother Courage in a production which opens at the Arena Theatre in Washington DC later this month. In 2005 she starred as Martha in a Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, receiveing a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. The production transferred to the West End's Apollo Theatre the following year.
In Bakersfield Mist Kathleen plays Maude Gutman, an out-of-work bartender who pays $3 for what she thinks is a cheap old abstract painting, only to come to believe it could be a Jackson Pollock worth millions.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Kathleen said: "She’s this blousy woman, a little rundown — the kind of cliche of an American woman you Brits just love! — but there’s more to her. It’s about the transformative power of art and class and truth."
The Mail reports that the actress was persuaded to do the play by producers Nica Burns and Sonia Friedman, but when she visited the Duchess she was initially concerned about the size of the theatre. She said to her co-star Ian “It’s very small for me!” but he responded: “I suppose it seems rather small to you, but it is just the two of us.”
Performances are scheduled to begin 10th May 2014.
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